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Early Intervention Is The Key To Tackle Youth Mental Illness
In a Journal supplement, Early Intervention in Youth Mental Health, Professor Patrick McGorry, Professor of Youth Mental Health at The University of Melbourne, and his co-authors, say improved and expanded mental health services are needed to bridge the gap between paediatric and adult care.
“One in four young people in Australia is likely to be suffering from a mental health problem,” Prof McGorry says.
He says early intervention is necessary to reduce the economic and social burden resulting from untreated youth mental illness, but age-appropriate services are hard to find.
“Services for young people tend to be threadbare and split across multiple levels of Government, multiple program areas, and myriad cash-strapped service providers.
“Just when mental health services are most needed by young people and their families, they are often inaccessible.
“Numerous young people with distressing and disabling mental health difficulties struggle to find age-appropriate assistance.
“Without access to appropriate treatment, many young people present in repeated crisis to overstretched hospital emergency departments, or their parents and carers are left to pick up the pieces.
“For many of these young people, if they survive, their difficulties eventually become chronic and disabling.”
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