Young People’s Views on Electronic Mental Health Assessment: Prefer to Type than Talk?

For mental health professionals to provide personalized early interventions, young people need to disclose sensitive information to a clinician they are unli-kely to have yet formed a relationship with. We conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with 129 young people aged 12–25 years from several sites across Australia to gauge views on whether young people thought that an electronic psychosocial assessment tool could help them initially disclose personal information.