Social-psychological factors affecting help-seeking for emotional problems

Rickwood, Debra; Braithwaite, Valerie

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“…It also increased the chance of parents using support of family and friends (see, e.g., Rickwood and Braithwaite, 1994). The presence of a relative who has consulted mental health services may indicate a certain willingness to discuss mental health matters in the family system, which may facilitate help-seeking for child psychopathology within this system.…”

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“…Help-seeking is assumed to be influenced by a child's gender, age, academic problems, family functioning, changes in family structure, single parenthood, and mental health service use by a relative (Briggs-Gowan et al, 2000;Feehan et al, 1994;Gunther et al, 2003;Jensen , 1990;John et al, 1995;Lavigne et al, 1998;Rickwood and Braithwaite, 1994;Verhulst and Van der Ende, 1997;Zahner and Daskalakis, 1997).…”

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“…Furthermore, mental health care use by a relative is assumed to influence help-seeking from friends or relatives only (Rickwood and Braithwaite, 1994;Verhulst and Van der Ende, 1997).…”

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Help-Seeking for Child Psychopathology: Pathways to Informal and Professional Services in The Netherlands

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Help-Seeking for Child Psychopathology: Pathways to Informal and Professional Services in The Netherlands

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“…Adolescents' experience of psychological distress and functional impairment was confirmed to increase their help seeking [33,39,48,49].…”

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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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“…We hypothesized that patients sociodemographic characteristics such as being a woman, being younger, having a higher education level, being professionally active would positively influence their desire for psychological support as those factors have been shown to influence reported distress and help-seeking in the general population [27][28][29][30][31][32]. We also hypothesized that disease-and treatment-related characteristics such as having breast cancer and being in chemotherapy would influence this desire as psychological difficulties associated with breast cancer and chemotherapy have been widely discussed and recognized [33][34][35][36].…”

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Cancer patients' desire for psychological support: prevalence and implications for screening patients' psychological needs

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Objectives: To investigate cancer patients' desire for psychological support and to identify patients' sociodemographic, disease-related and psychological factors associated with this desire.Methods: The study is part of a multicenter, cross-sectional study assessing cancer patients' needs and desire for psychological support. Patients completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Ways of Coping Checklist, the Cancer Rehabilitation Evaluation System and reported their desire for psychological support.Results: Among the 381 included patients, women (26%) desired psychological support significantly more often than men (11%) (po0.001). Patients' desire for psychological support was associated with being younger (OR 5 0.94; po0.001 for women and OR 5 0.93; p 5 0.007 for men) and having a support-seeking coping (OR 5 1.10; p 5 0.010 for women and OR 5 1.36; p 5 0.003 for men). Other contextual factors such as difficulties encountered and treatment modalities were diversely associated with women and men's desire for psychological support. Neither women's, nor men's psychological distress was associated with their desire for psychological support.Conclusions: One female cancer patient out of four and one male cancer patient out of ten desire psychological support. Results emphasize the need to screen not only for cancer patients' distress but also for their desire for psychological support. This will allow implementing psychological interventions according to patients' needs and desire.

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Social-psychological factors affecting help-seeking for emotional problems

Cited by 446 publications

References 33 publications

Help-Seeking for Child Psychopathology: Pathways to Informal and Professional Services in The Netherlands

Help-Seeking for Child Psychopathology: Pathways to Informal and Professional Services in The Netherlands

Help seeking for emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents

Cancer patients' desire for psychological support: prevalence and implications for screening patients' psychological needs

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