Each year, several thousand child refugees are resettled in Australia. These children have faced numerous stressors and are at increased risk for developing mental health problems including traumatic stress and a variety of emotional, behavioural, and educational difficulties. The diverse contexts in which refugee children may come into contact with mental health clinicians include school, chil...

BACKGROUND Timely and appropriate treatment could help reduce the burden of mental illness. PURPOSE This study describes mental health services use among Californians with mental health need, highlights underserved populations, and discusses policy opportunities. METHODS Four years of California Health Interview Survey data (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) were pooled and weighted to the 2013 popul...

Worcester and District Health Authority met various difficulties in its efforts to form a mental health services unit management team. The district contains two separate mental illness services, and the health authority decreed that these should form one unit thereby perpetuating the sector tier of management which the 1982 reorganisation was intended to abolish. The psychiatrists objected to t...

An international policy goal is to orientate mental health services around the support of 'recovery': the development of new meaning and purpose in one's life, irrespective of the presence or absence of symptoms of mental illness. Current progress towards a recovery orientation in mental health services is summarized, indicating that pro-recovery policy is in advance of both scientific evidence...

Women's Mental Health in Brazil remains underserved due to the lack of specialized clinical centers and poor research training or productivity. Nonetheless, there have been some promising initiatives over the last two decades to integrate gynecologic and mental health services and provide more multidisciplinary clinical care. This paper reviews such initiatives and discusses their strengths and...

Despite the evidence showing that young people aged 12-25 years have the highest incidence and prevalence of mental illness across the lifespan, and bear a disproportionate share of the burden of disease associated with mental disorder, their access to mental health services is the poorest of all age groups. A major factor contributing to this poor access is the current design of our mental hea...

Significant progress has been made in preparing for the introduction of the routine use of outcome measurement instruments to mental health services. However, limited attention has been paid to the linked issues of the practical challenge of their implementation and their possible uses in clinical practice. This paper reports on a qualitative study examining the views of clinicians, service man...

Parents of children ages 2-17 (N = 85,637) were asked questions related to mental disorders in the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health. Pearson's χ2 test and logistic regression were used to examine sociodemographic differences in the prevalence of mental disorders, mental health service needs, and service use. The lifetime and current prevalence of mental disorders was 21% and 14.8%...

Enhancing the functioning of parents, teachers, juvenile justice authorities, and other health and mental heal professionals who direct children and adolescents to services is a major mental health services concern. The Gateway Provider Model is an elaborated testable subset of the Network-Episode Model (NEM; B. A. Pescosolido & C. A. Boyer, 1999) that synthesizes it with Decision (D. H. Gustaf...

AIM Report of an innovative use of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to enable an in-depth study of the experiences of disengagement from mental health services of black men with diagnoses of severe and enduring mental illness. BACKGROUND The aim of IPA is to explore the sense that participants make of their personal and social worlds, while recognising the contribution of the re...