Formal Help-Seeking Behavior of Adolescents Identifying Themselves as Having Mental Health Problems

Saunders, Stephen M.; Resnick, Michael D.; Hoberman, Harry M.; Blum, Robert W.

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“…Confirmation has also been found for the influence of parental attitudes and beliefs [17,37], education level [15,26,40], and family stress [11,19,20,31,42,50] on help seeking.…”

Section: S Child Characteristics Influencing the First Filtermentioning

confidence: 88%

“…Whereas studies conducted in the USA and Australia have found different effects of these variables on help seeking [4,6,7,11,15,17,37,40], studies in countries like France, Finland and the Netherlands, in which healthcare is readily available and where there are no major financial constraints to receiving professional help, have not found any association between SES and help seeking, after controlling for the effect of SES on child psychopathology [19,20,42,45].…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Verhulst and Van der Ende [45] found the child's age only to be related to parental service need, and not to service utilisation. While some researchers found self-consciousness and self-worth to be negatively related to adolescents' professional help seeking [41], others found selfconsciousness and the willingness to disclose one's mental health only to be related to adolescents' informal help seeking [39], which, in turn, was found to increase the chance of adolescents seeking professional help [40].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Help seeking for emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents

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s Abstract In order to understand the discrepancy between rates of child and adolescent psychopathology and rates of mental health service use, variables influencing the help-seeking process need to be investigated. The present article aims to extend and refine previous findings by reviewing 47 recent empirical studies on parental and adolescent problem recognition and help seeking, and problem recognition by the general practitioner (GP). Several variables (child age, the presence of medical and school-related problems, informal help seeking, past treatment of parents or relatives, family size, and type of maltreatment) were discovered to influence parental/adolescent problem recognition and/or help seeking, while refinements were found for the effects of type of psychopathology, child gender, adolescent attitudes and personality, parental psychopathology, social support, and sociodemographic variables. Although recent studies uncovered several determinants of problem recognition by the GP (child gender, age, past treatment, academic problems, family composition, life events, type of visit, and acquaintance with child), this aspect of the help-seeking pathway remains relatively uncharted and, therefore, needs to be the focus of future research.s Key words help seeking -child and adolescent psychopathologyproblem recognition -mental health services

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“…Confirmation has also been found for the influence of parental attitudes and beliefs [17,37], education level [15,26,40], and family stress [11,19,20,31,42,50] on help seeking.…”

Section: S Child Characteristics Influencing the First Filtermentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: S Child Characteristics Influencing the First Filtermentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: S Child Characteristics Influencing the First Filtermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Help seeking for emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents

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Verhaak

Bensing

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European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

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“…Health concerns were found to be higher among girls than among boys, across all categories of physical health status, suggesting that separate constructs are being assessed with the two items. Health status perception shows good construct validity insofar as it is consistently correlated in the predicted direction with numerous indicators of emotional distress and risk taking behavior (42,47).…”

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Psychosocial Concerns and Health‐Compromising Behaviors among Overweight and Nonoverweight Adolescents

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Objective: To compare weight-specific and global psychosocial concerns and health-compromising behaviors among overweight and nonoverweight youth across gender and ethnicity. Methods: A cross-sectional schoolbased survey of 31,122 adolescents in grades 7 to 12. Based on self-reported heights and weights, respondents were categorized as nonoverweight (body mass index (BMI) 4 5 t h percentile), moderately overweight (85th percentile 95th percentile). Results: Global psychosocial concerns, such as emotional well-being, suicidal ideation, future job concerns, and peer concerns, did not differ greatly between nonoverweight, moderately overweight, and severely overweight adolescents. Substance abuse behaviors were equally or less prevalent among the overweight group. Overweight girls were significantly less likely to consume alcohol, whereas overweight boys were at lower risk for marijuana use. In contrast, overweight youth were more likely to perceive their health as only fair or poor and were more likely to express weight-specific concerns and engage in behav-NEUMARK-SZTAINER, DIANNE, MARY STORY, 5~237-249. iors such as chronic dieting and binge eating than nonoverweight youth. Overweight American Indian girls perceived their physical health more positively than nonoverweight American Indian girls. Strong associations were found between overweight status and chronic dieting among African American boys and girls. Conclusions: Nutritional counseling and educational programs need to address the weight-specific concerns and behaviors of overweight adolescents. However, assumptions regarding global psychosocial concerns and healthcompromising behaviors among overweight adolescents of different genders and ethnicities should be avoided. These broad issues need to be explored in more depth at both the research and intervention levels.

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“…The majority of the children and adolescents that suffer from mental health problems do not receive appropriate services (Leaf et al, 1996; US Department of Health and Human Services, 1999;. Several studies have shown that between 10 and 30% of the children and adolescents who need help actually utilize MHC services (Saunders, Resnick, Hoberman, Blum, 1994;Sournader et al, 2001). Zwaanswijk, Verhaak, Bensing, van der Ende, & Verhulst (2003b) found in a representative Dutch adolescent population (11-18 years) that 10.5% of the adolescents reported having a mental health problem that was severe and 3.8% of the population self-reported an unmet MHC need (unmet need is defined as self-reporting a need for MHC services, but self-reporting not having obtained it).…”

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Factors Associated with Mental Health Service Need and Utilization among Unaccompanied Refugee Adolescents

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Eurelings-Bontekoe

Mooijaart

et al. 2006

Adm Policy Ment Health

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This study is the first to address the need for mental health care (MHC) and the patterns of utilization of MHC services among Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM). Information concerning the well being, mental health need, and utilization of services of URM was collected from three informants, the minors themselves (n = 920), their legal guardians (n = 557), and their teachers (n = 496). The well-being, need and utilization of MHC services of URM was compared with those of a representative Dutch adolescent sample (n = 1059). The findings of this study indicated that URM that report a mental health care need (57.8%) also report higher levels of emotional distress than Dutch adolescents who report a similar need for MHC (8.2%). In addition, guardians and teachers detect emotional distress and mental health care needs in only a small percentage (30%) of URM. The referral of URM to mental health care services does not appear to be driven by the reported needs of the URM, but by the need and emotional distress as observed and perceived by guardians. This resulted in the fact that 48.7% of the URM total sample reported that their need for mental health care was unmet.

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Formal Help-Seeking Behavior of Adolescents Identifying Themselves as Having Mental Health Problems

Cited by 173 publications

References 16 publications

Help seeking for emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents

Help seeking for emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents

Psychosocial Concerns and Health‐Compromising Behaviors among Overweight and Nonoverweight Adolescents

Factors Associated with Mental Health Service Need and Utilization among Unaccompanied Refugee Adolescents

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