Chair of Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Executive Director of ORYGEN Research Centre,

Department of Psychiatry

Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences

Research Interests

Early intervention in youth mental health care; the role of general practitioners in early intervention; the ORYGEN model of treating young people 12 to 25; reform in mental health care; challenging outmoded methods of treating youth mental disorders; ORYGEN's mental health research program including: early psychosis, bi-polar disorder, depression, anxiety and personality disorders, substance use disorders, suicide prevention, mental health first aid, funding mental health care in Australia; why state governments must co-invest with the Federal Government

Contact Details

Website: addiction/drug use; adolescence/youth - behaviour, mental health; alcohol/drugs; diseases (human) - anxiety, bi-polar disorder, depression, schizophrenia; mental health; suicide
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