Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics including FRITZ am Urban and soulspace, Vivantes Klinikum Am Urban und Vivantes Klinikum im Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany.
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
Early Interv Psychiatry. 2024 Jul;18(7):571-577. doi: 10.1111/eip.13522. Epub 2024 Mar 14.
A substantial gap between young people's need for mental health care services and their actual access to such services led worldwide organizations (e.g., the WHO) to recommend the implementation of early intervention programs and youth mental health services. Some countries around the world have established structures to meet this recommendation. In this paper, we describe soulspace as the first integrated youth mental health service for young people aged between 15 and 35 years in Berlin, Germany.
We introduce soulspace as easily accessible mental health care for young people, and we characterize soulspace along the lines of the internationally established eight key principles of integrated youth mental health services (Killackey, et al., 2020, World Economic Forum). Soulspace is a cooperation between clinical outpatient units of psychiatric clinics for adolescents and young adults as well as a community-based counselling service. It provides initial contact, counselling, diagnostics, and treatment.
Our analyses of the pathways to soulspace and the characteristics of the soulspace users suggest that the low threshold is a facilitator to help finding for young people in comparison to more conventional early intervention models. That is, having transferred the early intervention center in a youth-facing counselling service as was done in soulspace seems to have reduced the threshold to seek help for families and for young people in need for support.
In summary, with soulspace, an easily accessible mental health care service was established that integrates counselling and specialized psychiatric treatment if needed.
年轻人对心理健康服务的需求与他们实际获得此类服务之间存在巨大差距，这促使全球组织（如世界卫生组织）建议实施早期干预计划和青年心理健康服务。世界上一些国家已经建立了结构来满足这一建议。在本文中，我们将 soulspace 描述为德国柏林第一个面向 15 至 35 岁年轻人的综合青年心理健康服务。
我们将 soulspace 介绍为年轻人容易获得的心理健康护理，并根据国际公认的八项综合青年心理健康服务的关键原则（Killackey 等人，2020 年，世界经济论坛）对 soulspace 进行特征描述。Soulspace 是青少年和青年精神病诊所的临床门诊单位与基于社区的咨询服务之间的合作。它提供初步联系、咨询、诊断和治疗。
我们对 soulspace 途径和 soulspace 用户特征的分析表明，与更传统的早期干预模式相比，低门槛是帮助年轻人寻找帮助的促进因素。也就是说，将早期干预中心转移到面向年轻人的咨询服务中，就像 soulspace 所做的那样，似乎降低了有需要的家庭和年轻人寻求帮助的门槛。
总之，通过 soulspace，建立了一个易于获得的心理健康护理服务，该服务将咨询和专业精神科治疗相结合，如果需要的话。
