Supporting Life Adjustment and Resilience
SOLAR is a psychosocial skill-building program designed to reduce distress and adjustment difficulties in people affected by disaster and trauma. Read more.
New hope for disaster survivors in regional and rural Victoria
Funding is available to expand the successful SOLAR Program in disaster affected regional and rural communities in Victoria. Read more.
The benefits of screening veterans in PTSD treatment for hearing condition
Our new research has found that one in two veterans receiving PTSD treatment in Australia report having tinnitus or hearing loss. Read more.
New hope for treating PTSD
Treatment for PTSD usually involves patients focusing on their traumatic experience, but world-first research may offer another treatment pathway. Read more.
Veterans’ PTSD win
Phoenix Australia's researchers are developing a hi-tech test to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans. Read more.
Getting better outcomes from posttraumatic stress disorder treatments
Effective treatments for PTSD exist, yet nearly half of patients continue to have significant symptomatology after treatment. Could augmentation of treatments improve results? Read more
Help us improve emergency service workers’ access to help and support
We are looking for participants for a study into making support more readily accessible for emergency service workers. Read more.
New understanding of alexithymia will help improve PTSD treatment outcomes
Rising to the challenge of disasters and public health emergencies is the focus of Phoenix Australia’s newly appointed Director, Alexandra Howard.
Study finds gambling problems in military personnel linked with trauma
Phoenix Australia's researchers found that gambling is a significant and unrecognised problem among Australia’s military personnel. Learn more.
PTSD and psychoactive drugs: MDMA treatment shows potential, but others lack evidence
We reviewed the state of the evidence for using psychoactive drugs in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Learn more.
