YOUTH healthMENTAL healthPUBLIC healthMENTAL health servicesYOUNG adultsNON-communicable diseasesA growing wave of evidence has emerged that reveals the extent of this neglect in youth mental health. In Australia, the recent National Study of Mental Health andWellbeing found that the prevalence of 12...
In the report of the findings, UK attitudes on all these issues are compared with attitudes in Australia, with both countries largely aligned in their views, aside from some differences. The public feels mental health and other aspects of life are worse for today's youth Majorities of the UK...
Western Sydney University researchers, youth mental health charity batyr, and clinical researcher Dr. Erin Dolan have released a new report that examines the help young people are providing each other, to better understand the care young people need when facing mental health challenges. Ad The find...
headspace, Australia's national youth mental health initiative, was created in 2006 in response to the recognition that the existing health system needed to be much more accessible and effective for young people with mental and substance use disorders. With funding of more than $54 million from ...
Similar to other health care sectors, mental health has moved towards the secondary prevention, with the effort to detect and treat mental disorders as early as possible. However, converging evidence sheds new light on the potential of primary preventive
The gap between need and access to youth mental health care is incontestable. Between 50-80 percent of youth who need support access no treatment at all. And this gap is a feature, not a bug, of how care is delivered. Most mental health treatment happens in brick-and-mortar, hard-...
The results showed that approximately 70% of young people who attended headspace centers in Australia significantly improved on at least one outcome measure [114]. However, functional improvements were observed in only 1/3 of cases which may reflect the fact that interventions were too short and ...
C Watsford,D Rickwood,T Vanags - 《Early Intervention in Psychiatry》 被引量: 16发表: 2013年 Early intervention services in youth mental health Mental and substance use disorders are leading contributors to the burden of disease among young people in Australia, but young people experience a rang...
headspace - Australia's innovation in youth mental health: who are the clients and why are they presenting? To provide the first national profile of the characteristics of young people (aged 12–25 years) accessing headspace centre services — the Australian Gove... TA Davenport,EM Scott,DF He...
2006 and 2015, by reviewing data stored in the National Coronial Information System. Their analysis, published today in theMedical Journal of Australia, revealed that 73 percent of theseyoung peopleexperiencedmental health difficulties, prior self-harm or substance misuse at the time of their deaths...