Building Mental Health Literacy: Opportunities and Resources for Clinicians

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Bagnell, Alexa L ^a   Santor, Darcy A ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision making; Mental health literacy; School; Youth

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 82855170825     PISSN: 10564993     EISSN: 15580490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2011.09.007     Document Type: Review

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