Young people with depression and their experience accessing an enhanced primary care service for youth with emerging mental health problems: a qualitative study

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McCann, Terence and Lubman, Dan (2012) Young people with depression and their experience accessing an enhanced primary care service for youth with emerging mental health problems: a qualitative study. BMC Psychiatry, 12. ISSN 1471-244X (print) 1471-244X (online)

Abstract

Despite the emergence of mental health problems during adolescence and early adulthood, many young people encounter difficulties accessing appropriate services. In response to this gap, the Australian Government recently established new enhanced primary care services ( headspace ) that target young people with emerging mental health problems. In this study, we examine the experience of young people with depression accessing one of these services, with a focus on understanding how they access the service and the difficulties they encounter in the process.

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Article 96 of BMC Psychiatry

Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/22731
DOI 10.1186/1471-244X-12-96
Official URL http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-244X...
Subjects Historical > FOR Classification > 1117 Public Health and Health Services
Historical > FOR Classification > 1701 Psychology
Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > School of Nursing and Midwifery
Keywords ResPubID25356, depression, early intervention, help-seeking, interpretative phenomenological analysis, qualitative research, service access, youth mental health, headspace, youth mental health services, schools, school counsellors, northwestern Melbourne
Citations in Scopus 25 - View on Scopus
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