evaluation and research
It is critical that our initiatives deliver great outcomes for the young people we serve. That’s why at headspace, we’re committed to ensuring that our services and programs are underpinned by the best quality evidence and are effectively meeting the needs of young people and their families.
Through our comprehensive monitoring, evaluation and research activities, headspace is building an evidence base that can support continuous quality improvement, guide service innovation and inform future directions in youth mental health through advocacy and policy reform.
Mental health outcomes for young people accessing Individual Placement Support services: A cohort study
Capturing the clinical complexity in young people presenting to primary mental health services: A data-driven approach
Evaluation snapshot: What young people say about headspace Work and Study Online
Young people's participation in their own mental health care: Session-by-session feedback in youth mental health services
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Development and Validation of a Routine Session-by-Session Experience Measure for Youth Mental Health Services: My Youth Mental Health Session Experience (MySE)
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headspace Early Career Program: Interim evaluation snapshot
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Evaluation snapshot: eheadspace satisfation
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Sixteen years of innovation in youth mental healthcare: Outcomes for young people attending Australia’s headspace centre services
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headspace Early Career Program: Year one in review
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Evaluation snapshot: Single Session Thinking (SST) and Single Session Family Consultation (SSFC)
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Defining integrated care in youth mental health: Implications for implementation at the service and clinical level
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Review of Integrated Care in Youth Mental Health
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Embedding Cultural Practice And Safety Project Report
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Evaluation snapshot: Visible
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Young People’s Experience at headspace: Evaluation In Focus
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Evaluation snapshot: Family satisfaction questionnaire
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Evaluation snapshot: AYAMH and Visible 2020 findings
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Evaluation snapshot: accessibility of the headspace early psychosis program
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Evaluation snapshot: evaluation of headspace centre services
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Infographic: headspace Regional Phone Counselling Service
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Evaluation report: community spaces
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Insights infographic: headspace Family and Friends Satisfaction Survey
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Evaluation snapshot: accessibility of headspace centre services
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Year in review 2019–2020
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Insights paper: loneliness over time
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An Online Platform to Provide Work and Study Support for Young People With Mental Health Challenges: Observational and Survey Study
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A study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research shows headspace Work and Study effectively supports young people
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An overview of our service delivery in FY 2019-20
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Coping with COVID: the mental health impact on young people accessing headspace services
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Young people’s experience of telehealth during COVID-19
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headspace staff experience of telehealth during COVID-19
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Publication: Service use and discontinuation at headspace
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MyLifeTracker: A routine outcome measure for youth mental health
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Digital Industry Mentor Service Report
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Coping with COVID: the mental health impact on young people accessing headspace services
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Increasing demand in youth mental health
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headspace centre young person follow up study
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Publication: Young People’s Satisfaction With eheadspace
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Publication: Awareness of headspace across Australian communities (2008 to 2015)
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Publication: Creating headspace for integrated youth mental health care
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Publication: Youth mental health providers’ perceptions of neuropsychological assessment
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Publication: Need for neuropsychological assessment in headspace by location
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Publication: Young men’s access to community-based mental health care
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Publication: The headspace centre model
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Publication: Suicide Postvention Support Service for Australian Secondary Schools
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Publication: Development and validation of MyLifeTracker
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Publication: Need for neuropsychological assessment in headspace services
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Publication: Music use to reduce psychological distress
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Digital work and Study Service: Final Evaluation Report
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Is headspace making a difference to young people's lives?
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Publication: The services provided to young people by headspace
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Publication: Outcomes achieved by young people accessing headspace
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Publication: Social influences on seeking help from mental health services
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Publication: Using an electronic assessment to increase self-disclosure in young people
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Publication: Mental health outcome measures for young people
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Publication: Outcomes for young people in online counselling
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Publication: Barriers and facilitators to accessing and engaging with mental health care
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Best practice framework
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Publication: headspace Australia’s innovation in youth mental health
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Publication: Australian blueprint for youth mental health reform
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Publication: Use of electronic psychosocial assessments in youth mental healthcare
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Publication: Providing online counselling to young people
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Publication: Online counselling processes and treatment outcomes
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Publication: Implementation a sexual health pathway in headspace centres