The latest Policy Brief, ‘Children’s mental health’, is now available.

“In Australia, recent years have seen significantly increased awareness of mental illness and a major increase in available funding. However, mental health in early childhood – that is from birth to primary school age – remains a poor cousin to adult and youth mental health. The focus for attention and funding is primarily on 12-25 year olds and disadvantaged groups with only a tiny fraction of the available mental health funding in Australia devoted to 0-12 year olds. The next step is to focus on mental illness prevention and mental health promotion from very early childhood – where many of the mental health problems encountered in adolescence and adulthood have their origins…”

Read the full issue:

Policy Brief, Issue 24 (April 2012)

Past editions and references are available from the Policy Brief archives page.