Early intervention with difficult to engage, 'high-risk' youth: evaluating an intensive outreach approach in youth mental health.

Background: Although intensive outreach (IO) models such as assertive community treatment and intensive case management have a strong evidence base in adult psychiatry, their effectiveness in the early intervention sector is unknown.

Aim: To explore client characteristics and treatment effects in a group of difficult to engage, 'high-risk' young people, seen by the Intensive Mobile Youth Outreach Service (IMYOS, ORYGEN Youth Heath) in Western Metropolitan Melbourne.

Methods: The clinical files of 47 clients were audited, targeting demographic and treatment outcome data prior to and during IMYOS involvement.

Image: changing how women nurses think about themselves. Literature review.

Aim: This paper presents a review of the public and professional images of nursing in the literature and explores nurse image in the context of Strasen's self-image model.

Background: Nurses have struggled since the 1800s with the problem of image. What is known about nurses' image is from the perspective of others: the media, public or other healthcare professionals.

Beyond dualism: leading out of oppression.

Purpose: To reexamine our beliefs about our gender identity in order to identify new possibilities for leading in nursing.

Sources Of Information: Leadership is complex. This article is the result of a lengthy iterative process of exploring the empowerment, image, leadership, feminist, and oppression literature.