Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, The Australian National University School of Medicine and Psychology, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Consortium of Australian-Academic Psychiatrists for Independent Policy and Research Analysis (CAPIPRA), Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Australas Psychiatry. 2023 Jun;31(3):255-257. doi: 10.1177/10398562231153007. Epub 2023 Feb 8.
The Australian headspace model has been proposed as an internationally significant exemplar for reducing the mental health 'treatment gap' amongst young people around the world. We provide a commentary that discusses the conceptualisation and delivery of headspace services within Australia, a predominantly Westernised, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) society, as well as examining accessibility and suitability for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.
headspace was conceptualised, designed, implemented and evaluated according in a WEIRD sociocultural context, and is therefore most applicable to that setting. Australia also has CALD communities, who have not seemed to access headspace in the reported patient and staff demographics. On this basis, there may be questions about the potential generalisability of headspace models outside WEIRD societies.
澳大利亚 headspace 模式被认为是减少全世界年轻人心理健康“治疗差距”的具有国际重要意义的范例。我们提供了一份评论,讨论了 headspace 服务在澳大利亚的概念化和提供,澳大利亚是一个主要是西方化、受过教育、工业化、富裕和民主(WEIRD)的社会,并审查了其对文化和语言多样化(CALD)社区的可及性和适宜性。
headspace 是在 WEIRD 社会文化背景下构思、设计、实施和评估的,因此最适用于这种环境。澳大利亚也有 CALD 社区,他们似乎没有根据报告的患者和工作人员人口统计数据使用 headspace。基于此,headspace 模式在 WEIRD 社会之外的推广可能存在一些问题。