This is why we need to change our approach to young people's mental health
Most mental health systems are structured on child and adult systems, with the cut-off point being 18 years – right in the middle of the onset of illness.
Professor Eóin Killackey is to Associate Director, Graduate Research and Education and Head, Functional Recovery Research program at Orygen. He has worked as a clinical psychologist in adolescent and adult public mental health settings and in private practice.
Eóin’s research is primarily in helping young people with mental illness recover well. This includes finding ways to help young people with their education and employment and improve their physical health. Another focus of his research is in service system reform in mental illness.
Eóin is a founder of the International First Episode Vocational Recovery group and is a past recipient of the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research’s Schering-Plough Organon Prize.