"Raising happy and resilient children" is the theme of Dr Michael Carr-Gregg's address when he visits Taree next week.
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Dr Carr-Gregg is one of Australia's highest profile adolescent and child psychologists. He will address a forum at Taree's St Clare's High School on Monday, February 24. The two-hour forum is free to everyone and begins at 6pm, for a 6.30 start.
Dr Carr-Gregg is the author of many books such as Strictly Parenting, Beyond Cyberbullying, Surviving Adolescents and Surviving Year 12.
He wrote his PhD at the University of NSW on adolescents with cancer and in 1985, founded the national teenage cancer patients support group Canteen, a world first.
He moved to New Zealand and became a political lobbyist for the NZ Cancer Society, heading up the Coalition Against Tobacco Advertising and Promotion.
Dr Carr-Gregg was the inaugural director of the NZ Drug Foundation before being appointed head of education and training at the Centre for Adolescent Health at the Royal Children's Hospital and an associate professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.
In 2015 he was appointed managing director of the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre and developed an interest in the use of technology for building wellnesss is young people.
He is being brought to Taree by CatholicCare in conjunction with the Federation of Parents and Friends Association.