Detection and intervention in emerging youth mental health issues: Outcomes from the first year of the CASPAR service.

Objective: There is a recognized gap in mental health service provision for youth, a population in whom emerging mental disorders are prevalent and recognized as a target for early intervention. Comprehensive Assessment Service for Psychosis and At-Risk (CASPAR) is a new, community-based service aiming to address the service gap between headspace and tertiary psychiatric services. CASPAR facilitates assessment and short-term early intervention in youth (aged 12-25 years) with emerging mental health issues.

PRUFILE: a clinical and laboratory database for the genetics centre.

The growing complexity and volume of workload in a Clinical Genetics Centre can rapidly swamp the available clerical facilities. The multiuser database described gives facilities not only for administrative control and documentation but also for the production of data for clinical and scientific analysis. The close link between clinical and laboratory databases gives great versatility and easy expansion as new tests and disciplines are applied to clinical genetic problems.