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Human-Centring a Mental Health Service System

Format: Papers, RSD3, Topic: Policy & Governance

Authors: Karen Oikonen, Adam Starkman, Peter Jones and Andrea Yip

A university-based research team completed a service design research study for the OCAD University Health and Wellness Centre, developing a service concept, student-centred journey, and a system map to illustrate solutions and recommendations for extending the service concept broadly across post-secondary campuses. The research identified both extremely local solution states for improving student awareness and experience of mental health, and discovered broadly systemic factors applicable across all campuses. Systemic problems included the student negotiation of major life transitions while resolving uncertainties and social risks in mental health seeking and the recruitment of social and clinical services in the maintenance of resiliency. Service and system maps will be presented to illustrate the student pre-service mental health journey and system-level solutions proposed for post-secondary education.

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Author(s): OCTOBER 2014
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Title: Human-Centring a Mental Health Service System
Published in: Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design
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First published: 28 September 2014
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Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (ISSN 2371-8404) are published annually by the Systemic Design Association, a non-profit scholarly association leading the research and practice of design for complex systems: 3803 Tønsberg, Norway (922 275 696).

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