Enhancing Community Engagement with Mental Health Services

We often sit in our Mental Health world and wonder why more people don't make use of our services. A lot of the time it's because people don't even know we exist!

I was Principal Investigator on this research with over 100 staff in community services about how they currently support people who may be experiencing anxiety or depression and how this can be improved.

This was national population health research delivered by AUT University and funded by the Health Promotion Agency to look at non-mental health service staff experiences supporting people and awareness/utilisation of the depression website and online CBT program called The Journal.

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myjournal.depression.org.nz

For a copy of the report please contact me.

Reference:

Edwards, G. D., Drown, J., Thapliyal, A. & Babbage, D. R. (2018).
Enhancing community engagement with National Depression Initiative: The Journal and Depression Website. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University of Technology Centre for eHealth.

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