Barriers to Creating and Implementing Child Mental Health Policies That Promote Child Mental Health Competence in Victoria, Australia: A Qualitative Study
While there are efforts to promote child mental health competence through policy, such as the National Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy, policy makers believe there remains a strong focus on deficits. So What? Researchers can play a role in addressing barriers to creating mental health competence policies by providing guidance on the measurement of child mental health competence and identifying ways to stack interventions to efficiently target mental health competence and difficulties and address family risk factors.
Authors
- Susan Woolfenden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6954-5071)
- Selena Gray (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6257-4024)
- Sharon Goldfeld (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6520-7094)
- Meg Stonnill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5483-9475)
Institutions
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Sydney Local Health District (AU)
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Health Promotion Journal of Australia
- Published
- 2025-04-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.70046
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.82
Funders
- Australian Government
- University of Melbourne
- Medical Research Council
- National Health and Medical Research Council