Welcome to the Knowledge Centre

The headspace Knowledge Centre provides up-to-date information about treatment interventions and models of care for young people with mental health and substance use issues. It is designed for professionals who work with young people, as well as researchers and academics and members of the community who are interested in youth mental health.

You can browse the information in the Knowledge Centre through the tree on the left. Here you will find a growing library of evidence that is related to the treatment of common youth mental health problems.

The Centre of Excellence provides an overview of some of the most common mental health and substance use disorders affecting young people. These overviews focus on:

• the diagnostic criteria for these disorders (including some of the difficulties in diagnosing mental illness in young people)
• the prevalence of these conditions,
• the ages of onset,
• evidence-based treatment options, and
• information about current models of care.

In the Evidence Mapping section of the Knowledge Centre, you will find a dynamic resource that assembles all the evidence and research regarding treatment interventions for common mental health and substance use problems affecting young people. The Evidence Maps will be continually updated. Currently, the Evidence Map for Depression is available, with the other disorder areas coming online throughout 2008-2009.