Sentences with phrase «limited mental health support services»

Psychological distress remains high among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, with limited mental health support services in rural and regional areas and a lack of culturally relevant early intervention programs both contributing to higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicide.

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«Given the limited accessibility of traditional mental health services for children — particularly for children from minority and economically disadvantaged backgrounds — school - based mental health services are a tremendous vehicle for overcoming barriers to mental health care and meaningfully expanding the reach of supports and services for so many children in need.

Although evidence is limited that family support and coaching programs alone can significantly decrease symptoms of clinical depression, family support providers who build trusting relationships with mothers are better able to identify women struggling with depression, connect them to mental health services, reduce new parents» sense of isolation, and improve their ability to ask for help when they feel overwhelmed.3