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Silent, Invisible and Under-Supported? An Autoethnographic Journey Through the Valley of the Shadow of Youth Mental Health in Australia

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This study follows the interpretivist paradigm and uses autoethnography as both a methodology and a method to answer the research question, How might a mother’s autoethnographic account of her son ‘falling through the cracks’ help us to better understand and support Australian youth experiencing mental illness?

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  1. School of Education, College of Arts, Law and Education, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, 7000, Australia

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Hugo, A. (2018). Silent, Invisible and Under-Supported? An Autoethnographic Journey Through the Valley of the Shadow of Youth Mental Health in Australia. In: Kember, D., Corbett, M. (eds) Structuring the Thesis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0511-5_26

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