Mental Health Research

Literature indicates There are a wide range of health and treatment services in Australia. These include:

- Care provided by general health related care such as General Practitioners, residential hospitals and ambulatory care;
- Specialist mental health services through hospitals and residential mental health care, government and non-government agencies,
- Community based mental health care and private medical practitioners such as counsellors, psychologists and psychiatrists.

Barriers in seeking treatment

Facilitators to seeking treatment

- Accessibility
- Affordability
- Stigma
- Discrimination
- Fear
- Social exclusion
- reluctance to seek help
- being self efficient and self reliant

A barrier is defined as “an event or condition that hinders the adoption decision, the advancement of the project or sustained implementation.” (Seffrin, Panzano, Roth, 2009, 262).

A facilitator is defined as “an event or condition that favours the adoption decision, the advancement of the project or sustained implementation.” (Seffrin, Panzano, Roth, 2009, 262).

- Empowerment
-Partnerships
- Participation
- Person-centred
- capacity building
- Positive past experiences and relationships