How effective are ‘headspace’ youth mental health services?
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The main criticisms of integrated youth mental health care have been that focusing on early-stage illness can detract from or divert focus from the care of later stages of illness, that the models have insufficient clinical expertise, and that the evidence for the benefits provided is insufficient.
“The main criticisms of integrated youth mental health care have been that focusing on early-stage illness can detract from or divert focus from the care of later stages of illness, that the models have insufficient clinical expertise, and that the evidence for the benefits provided is insufficient.”
From The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health (2024) · cites this paper as [319]
In “Where to from here?” (article pp. 861–862), Jorm says that evidence headspace improves clients’ mental health is not yet convincing and warns that investment could tie up resources for alternative approaches. The paper does not specifically say early-stage care diverts attention from later-stage illness or that the model lacks clinical expertise. Its criticism concerns headspace rather than integrated youth mental health care generally. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThese reforms have attracted critics as well as early adopters.
“As with any paradigm shift, these reforms have attracted critics as well as early adopters. 319,320”
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- Authors
- Jorm, A. F.
- Affiliations
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Jorm, Anthony F
- ORCID
- Jorm, Anthony F
- Venue
- Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2015-09-28
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 861-862
- ISSN
- 0004-8674 (ISSN-L)
- 1440-1614
- OpenAlex
- W2435616535
- Cited by
- 188
- References
- 5
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- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychology and Mental Health
- Keywords
- child and adolescent mental health services, service effectiveness, adolescent mental health, service evaluation
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Australia, Mental Disorders, Humans, Mental Health Services, Adolescent Health Services, Outcome Assessment, Health Care
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