Prevention and early intervention for mental health problems in 0-25 year olds: Are there evidence-based models of care?

Advances in Mental Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-19

  Catania, Lisa S ^a   Hetrick, Sarah E ^a   Newman, Louise K ^b,c   Purcell, Rosemary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Collaborative care; Early intervention; Integrated models of care; Mental health; Prevention; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 80555130842     PISSN: 18387357     EISSN: 18374905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/jamh.2011.10.1.6     Document Type: Article

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