首页 | 本学科首页   官方微博 | 高级检索  
检索        


Early intervention services in youth mental health
Authors:Dr Darryl Wade  Amy Johnston  Bronwyn Campbell  Lyn Littlefield
Institution:Australian Psychological Society, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Abstract:Mental and substance use disorders are leading contributors to the burden of disease among young people in Australia, but young people experience a range of barriers to accessing appropriate treatment for their mental health concerns. The development of early intervention services that provide accessible and effective mental health care has the potential to reduce the individual and community burden associated with mental health problems. Collaborative care arrangements between general practitioners, psychologists and other service providers are a key component of comprehensive and integrated early intervention services, with evidence-based psychological treatments an important part of these collaborative mental health care models. Recently, the Australian Government funded headspace (the National Youth Mental Health Foundation) to promote and support early intervention in youth mental health by establishing accessible and collaborative models of enhanced primary mental health care for young people with emergent mental and substance use disorders. Clinical psychologists in the headspace Community of Youth Service and other settings will play a key role in providing early and effective interventions within multidisciplinary collaborative care arrangements.
Keywords:collaborative care  early intervention  mental disorders  service delivery  substance use disorders  youth
设为首页 | 免责声明 | 关于勤云 | 加入收藏

Copyright©北京勤云科技发展有限公司  京ICP备09084417号