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

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 with a background in clinical psychology. She has recently completed a second PhD in cultural geography and the creative arts at the University of Melbourne and is a senior fellow of its School of Geography. Her interests are in the geographies of mental health, cultures of sense and movement, therapeutic spaces, rurality, and contemporary museum geographies.

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.