The stresses of managing a budding acting career and her Year 12 studies is something Home and Away's Samara Weaving knows a little about.
The young star has helped launch a groundbreaking website which will help guide people, young and old, through the myriad of mental and physical e-health applications now available online.
The Beacon web portal, developed by a team at the Australian National University, is a world-first compilation of online mental and physical e-health programs.
Not only does it provide access to e-health programs for health professionals and members of the community, the site also provides a description and scientific rating of the effectiveness for each.
Weaving says she was happy to lend her support to the launch, adding that for her and others of her generation, the internet is where they get a lot of their information.
"I think my generation go to the internet as their main source of information, especially when it comes to more serious subjects," she said at the launch of the website in Canberra.
"You do need a reliable source and I think Beacon does that really well, especially with analysing all the websites and telling you just how reliable they are."
To date, Beacon has reviewed 100 programs across a range of categories including depression, social anxiety and eating disorders.
But Professor Helen Christensen, from the Australian National University Centre for Mental Health Research, said the website was not just for the younger generation.
"It's really been designed for everybody, parents of young people, doctors, health professionals who may not have at their finger tips what is available in terms of self help."
