Understanding barriers to mental health service utilization for adolescents in rural Australia

Damon Aisbett

qualifications: BPsych

contribution: literature review, collected data, qualitative analysis, wrote the first draft

position: Research Officer

Australia

Dr Candice Boyd

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, supervised data collection, qualitative analysis, contributed to drafts, prepared final draft

position: Lecturer in Psychology

Australia

Dr Candice Boyd is an artist-geographer and clinical psychologist in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include geographies of mental health, therapeutic spaces, regional youth and eco-cultural identities.

Kristy Francis

qualifications: BA(Psych)(Hons)

contribution: qualitative analysis, contributed to drafts

position: Student Researcher

Krystal Newnham

qualifications: BA(Psych)(Hons)

contribution: qualitative analysis, contributed to drafts

position: Student Researcher

Australia

Karyn Newnham

qualifications: BA(Psych)(Hons)

contribution: qualitative analysis, contributed to drafts

position: Student Researcher

Australia

Interested in rural adolescent mental health. Particularly in regards to psychology of place and the role that place potentially plays in well-being and mental health.