Mental Health Literacy

Kutcher, Stan; Wei, Yifeng; Coniglio, Connie

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“…Mental health literacy is evolving in its conceptualization (Kutcher et al, 2016). Jorm and colleagues (Jorm, 2000;Jorm et al, 1997) initially described the term as the knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders that aid in a person's recognition, management, or prevention of mental illness.…”

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“…Jorm and colleagues (Jorm, 2000;Jorm et al, 1997) initially described the term as the knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders that aid in a person's recognition, management, or prevention of mental illness. More recently, however, the concept of mental health literacy has broadened to include maintaining positive mental health, understanding disorders and treatments, decreasing stigma related to mental illness, and enhancing one's knowledge of resources for mental illnesses so that one can manage a mental illness successfully (Kutcher et al, 2016). Several authors (Evans-Lacko et al, 2010;Jorm, 2000;Kutcher et al, 2016) have studied mental health literacy hoping to improve public knowledge about mental health, decrease related stigma, and promote help-seeking behaviors.…”

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“…More recently, however, the concept of mental health literacy has broadened to include maintaining positive mental health, understanding disorders and treatments, decreasing stigma related to mental illness, and enhancing one's knowledge of resources for mental illnesses so that one can manage a mental illness successfully (Kutcher et al, 2016). Several authors (Evans-Lacko et al, 2010;Jorm, 2000;Kutcher et al, 2016) have studied mental health literacy hoping to improve public knowledge about mental health, decrease related stigma, and promote help-seeking behaviors. However, the body of research is small, and the benefits of increased mental health literacy have yet to be explored in the counseling field (Evans-Lacko et al, 2010;Jorm, 2000;Kutcher et al, 2016).…”

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“…Several authors (Evans-Lacko et al, 2010;Jorm, 2000;Kutcher et al, 2016) have studied mental health literacy hoping to improve public knowledge about mental health, decrease related stigma, and promote help-seeking behaviors. However, the body of research is small, and the benefits of increased mental health literacy have yet to be explored in the counseling field (Evans-Lacko et al, 2010;Jorm, 2000;Kutcher et al, 2016). Although mental health literacy and stigma have been linked conceptually, an aim of the current study was to explore the relationship quantitatively.…”

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Self‐Stigma, Mental Health Literacy, and Health Outcomes in Integrated Care

Crowe

Mullen

Littlewood

2018

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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The authors describe research on the self‐stigma of mental illness and help seeking, mental health literacy, and health outcomes in an integrated care medical center. Results revealed that self‐stigma of mental illness and self‐stigma of seeking help had an inverse relationship with mental health literacy. No statistically significant relationships were found between health outcomes, either type of self‐stigma, and mental health literacy. The authors discuss these and other findings and offer research and counseling implications.

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Littlewood

2018

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“…Such interventions are increasingly recognised as important contributors to improving health outcomes (for example, by promoting help seeking) [25] and research by Chisholm [26] demonstrates that it is possible to use school-based interventions to change attitudes toward people with serious mental health problems.…”

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Labelling effects and adolescent responses to peers with depression: an experimental investigation

Dolphin¹,

Hennessy²

2017

BMC Psychiatry

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Background: The impact of illness labels on the stigma experiences of individuals with mental health problems is a matter of ongoing debate. Some argue that labels have a negative influence on judgments and should be avoided in favour of information emphasising the existence of a continuum of mental health/illness. Others believe that behavioral symptoms are more powerful influencers of stigma than labels. The phenomenon has received little attention in adolescent research, despite the critical importance of the peer group at this developmental stage. This study employs a novel experimental design to examine the impact of the depression label and continuum information on adolescents' responses to peers with depression.

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A Feasibility Trial of Mental Health First Aid First Nations: Acceptability, Cultural Adaptation, and Preliminary Outcomes

Crooks

Lapp

Auger³

et al. 2018

American J of Comm Psychol

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The Mental Health First Aid First Nations course was adapted from Mental Health First Aid Basic to create a community‐based, culturally safe and relevant approach to promoting mental health literacy in First Nations contexts. Over 2.5 days, the course aims to build community capacity by teaching individuals to recognize and respond to mental health crises. This feasibility trial utilized mixed methods to evaluate the acceptability, cultural adaptation, and preliminary effectiveness of MHFAFN. Our approach was grounded in community‐based participatory research principles, emphasizing relationship‐driven procedures to collecting data and choice for how participants shared their voices. Data included participant interviews (n = 89), and surveys (n = 91) from 10 groups in four provinces. Surveys contained open‐ended questions, retrospective pre‐post ratings, and a scenario. We utilized data from nine facilitator interviews and 24 facilitator implementation surveys. The different lines of evidence converged to highlight strong acceptability, mixed reactions to the cultural adaptation, and gains in participants’ knowledge, mental health first aid skill application, awareness, and self‐efficacy, and reductions in stigma beliefs. Beyond promoting individual gains, the course served as a community‐wide prevention approach by situating mental health in a colonial context and highlighting local resources and cultural strengths for promoting mental well‐being.

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Mental Health Literacy

Cited by 516 publications

References 23 publications

Self‐Stigma, Mental Health Literacy, and Health Outcomes in Integrated Care

Self‐Stigma, Mental Health Literacy, and Health Outcomes in Integrated Care

Labelling effects and adolescent responses to peers with depression: an experimental investigation

A Feasibility Trial of Mental Health First Aid First Nations: Acceptability, Cultural Adaptation, and Preliminary Outcomes

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