Workforce planning for children and young people's mental health care
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Mental health problems and disorders start in childhood and adolescence and can have lifelong effects.1 Exposure to trauma in childhood might be psychiatry's greatest public health challenge—as Sara and Lappin recently stated in The Lancet Public Health.2 Yet services to adequately address this health problem, and mental disorders in general in young people, are scarce.
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- Authors
- Kowalenko, N. M., & Culjak, G.
- Affiliations
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- ORCID
- Culjak, Gordana
- Venue
- The Lancet Public Health
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-06
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- e266-e267
- ISSN
- 2468-2667 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2807095540
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 0.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- The Lancet Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Emergency Medical Services › Global Health Workforce Issues
- Keywords
- workforce planning, child mental health services, youth mental health, mental health professionals, childhood trauma, adolescent mental disorders, mental health service delivery
- MeSH terms
- Workforce, Adolescent, Child, Humans, Infant, Mental Health, South Australia
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