Workforce shortages and their impact on Australian youth mental health service reform
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Youth mental health has become an important focus of health service reform in Australia, through Federal government funded initiatives such as headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation. Underpinning the success of such initiatives is the availability of an appropriately skilled health workforce. This paper describes some of the major health workforce needs of the headspace initiative, and presents current data on the availability of key workforce components – youth workers, social workers, psychologists, mental health nurses, general practitioners and psychiatrists. Workforce shortages in many of these fields are evident and impact on the successful implementation of headspace, and other mental health service reforms.
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The demand for youth mental health care has increased, and workforce and skills shortages are a major challenge globally, particularly in low-resource settings.
“The demand for youth mental health care has increased, 230,380-382 and workforce and skills shortages are a major challenge globally, particularly in low-resource settings.”
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- Authors
- Carbone, S., Rickwood, D., & Tanti, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Canberra (AU)
- Venue
- Advances in Mental Health
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2011-10
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 92-97
- ISSN
- 1446-7984 (ISSN-L)
- 1838-7357
- 1837-4905
- OpenAlex
- W2063478040
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 2.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advances in Mental Health (publishedVersion)
- University of Canberra Research Portal (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- ACT Government
- Australian Government
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Emergency Medical Services › Global Health Workforce Issues
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Keywords
- youth mental health, health workforce shortage, mental health service reform, youth workers, social workers, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, general practitioners, psychiatrists, labor availability, Australia
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