Youth mental health: building beyond the brand

McGorry, Patrick D

doi:10.5694/mja17.00973

Topics

Mental disorders

Youth mental health is a hot topic. How much progress have we made, and what’s next?

Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC

Correspondence: pat.mcgorry@orygen.org.au

Competing interests:

Patrick McGorry is Executive Director of Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, the lead agency for four centres. He is also a director of the board of , the National Youth Mental Health Foundation.

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