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Editorial
. 2022 Nov;27(4):430-432.
doi: 10.1111/camh.12599.

Editorial Perspective: Using the levers to improve the mental health transitions of 15-25 year olds - learning from the evidence across the whole of health, social care and beyond

Sue Bailey  1
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Editorial

Editorial Perspective: Using the levers to improve the mental health transitions of 15-25 year olds - learning from the evidence across the whole of health, social care and beyond

Sue Bailey. Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2022 Nov.

Abstract

Reflecting on the findings from the Scoping Review paper by Adu et al. (2022) and the insightful commentary from Emma and Toni Wakefield (2022) gave me the opportunity to ask all of us whether user, carer, practitioner, educator, researcher or policymaker, how can we together convert the growing evidence about best models of transitions into a reality? One that delivers across pathways of care and across geographies, with positive, sustainable and measurable whole systems change; both for Transitional Age Youth (TAY) with extant mental health problems and also a model that is able to sustain the population mental health and well-being of all 15-25 year olds. In this commentary, I discuss the essential framework needed to develop the system change discussed in these papers.

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