Anthony F. Jorm|Annemarie Wright
Beliefs of Young People and Their Parents about the Effectiveness of Interventions for Mental Disorders
Orygen|University of Melbourne|Orygen|University of Melbourne
mental disorders often first onset youth young people need knowledge support appropriate decisionmaking aim study find interventions see potentially helpful range mental disordersin 2006 interviews carried 3746 australians aged 1225 years 2005 parents participants presented case vignette describing either psychosis depression depression alcohol misuse social phobia questions asked likely helpfulness broad range possible interventionsthere broad agreement young people parents interventions likely helpful views applied across range disorders presented interventions could described general informal sources help rather specialist mental health services negative views psychiatric medications admission hospitalthe findings suggest need improve knowledge appropriate treatment options give attention evaluation interventions widely accepted young people underresearched findings also suggest ways interventions labelled make acceptable age group