This book draws together a series of approaches and tried-and-tested practices to provide a foundation for mental health practitioners to work from. Unlike the orthodox approach to health promotion, it adopts a multidisciplinary perspective, combining the experience of a variety of practitioners and academics in the area. The authors present the conceptual foundation to mental health promotion in the youth population, then go on to draw from case studies and the findings from community and adolescent projects implemented in Australia and New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Foreword Preface List of contributors 1. Debates and confusion, collaboration and emerging practice-Lyn Walker and Louise Rowling 2. Mental health promotion-Louise Rowling 3. Prevention and mental health promotion in adolescents: the evidence-George C. Patton, Craig A. Olsson and John W. Toumbourou 4. Young people, schools and mental health services: intervention or prevention?-Stephen Johns 5. A population health approach: building the infrastructure to promote mental health in young people-Kym Scanlon 6. Taking the prize or paying the price? Young people and progress-Richard Eckersley 7. Bungy jumping through life: a developmental framework for the promotion of resilience-Andrew Fuller, Karen McGraw and Melinda Goodyear 8. CHAMPS: Community health adolescent Murraylands peer support: a case study in youth partnership accountability-Cindy Turner 9. Establishing a role for schools in mental health promotion: the MindMatters project-Margaret Sheehan, Helen Cahill, Louise Rowling, Bernie Marshall, Johanna Wynn and Roger Holdsworth 10. The Gatehouse Project: mental health promotion incorporating school organisational change and health education-Helen Butler, Lyndal Bond, Sara Glover and George Patton 11. The Clarkson school community profiling project-Beverley A. Vickers, Stephen R. Zubrick and Sven R Silburn 12. The Mentally Healthy Schools initiative in Aotearoa/New Zealand-Sara Bennett, Carolyn Coggan and Pauline Dickinson 13. The Resourceful Adolescent Program (RAP): building resilience and preventing depression in adolescents through universal school-based interventions-Ian M. Shochet 14. Using the Net to engage youth in mental health promotion: the Reach Out! experience-Meg Morrison and Carolyn Sullivan 15. Indigenous mental health promotion: process, politics, paradox and practicalities-Ernest Hunter, Komla Tsey, Mercy Baird and Les Baird 16. Same-sex attracted youth and suicide-John Howard, Jonathan Nicholas, Graham Brown and Aydin Karacanta 17. Juvenile recidivism: new and surprising possibilities for mental health promotion and prevention-Timothy Keogh 18. The prevention of suicide through lifetime mental health promotion: healthy, happy young people don't suicide, do they?-Graham Martin 19. Mental health promotion and young people: the next 10 years-Louise Rowling and Graham Martin Index