{"id":389,"date":"2012-04-13T02:33:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=389"},"modified":"2012-05-28T00:46:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T00:46:30","slug":"latest-policy-brief-out-now-childrens-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2012\/04\/13\/latest-policy-brief-out-now-childrens-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Policy Brief out now &#8211; Children&#8217;s mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Policy Brief, &#8216;Children&#8217;s mental health&#8217;, is now available.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/emplibrary\/ccch\/Policy_Brief_24_web.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-390\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2012\/04\/PB-24-front-page-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2012\/04\/PB-24-front-page-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2012\/04\/PB-24-front-page.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<em>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 &#8211; that is from birth to primary school age &#8211; 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 &#8211; where many of the mental health problems encountered in adolescence and adulthood have their origins<\/em>&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the full issue:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/resources.cfm?doc_id=10885\"><strong>Policy Brief, Issue 24 (April 2012)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Past editions and references are available from the Policy Brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/resources.cfm?doc_id=10886\">archives page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This edition suggests the need for increased awareness of children&#8217;s mental health and the importance of early prevention and intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5935],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-and-papers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}