Who Are the Young People Choosing Web-based Mental Health Support? Findings From the Implementation of Australia's National Web-based Youth Mental Health Service, eheadspace

JMIR Mental Health

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Rickwood, Debra ^a,b   Webb, Marianne ^a   Kennedy, Vanessa ^a   Telford, Nic ^a  

^a Headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

adolescent; counseling; help seeking behavior; Internet; mental health; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 85033782135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23687959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mental.5988     Document Type: Article

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