TY - JOUR AU - Hart, Laura M. AU - Mason, Robert J. AU - Kelly, Claire M. AU - Cvetkovski, Stefan AU - Jorm, Anthony F. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/01/19 TI - ‘teen Mental Health First Aid’: a description of the program and an initial evaluation JO - International Journal of Mental Health Systems SP - 3 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - Many adolescents have poor mental health literacy, stigmatising attitudes towards people with mental illness, and lack skills in providing optimal Mental Health First Aid to peers. These could be improved with training to facilitate better social support and increase appropriate help-seeking among adolescents with emerging mental health problems. teen Mental Health First Aid (teen MHFA), a new initiative of Mental Health First Aid International, is a 3 × 75 min classroom based training program for students aged 15–18 years. SN - 1752-4458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0034-1 DO - 10.1186/s13033-016-0034-1 ID - Hart2016 ER -