To Whom Do Adolescents Turn for Help? Differences between Disturbed and Nondisturbed Adolescents

What Teens Want: Barriers to Seeking Care for Depression

“…Adolescent depression currently accounts for a substantial portion of the health care costs incurred by this age group (Birmaher et al, 1996), which are expected to increase as the prevalence of depression among children and adolescents rises and incidence occurs at younger ages (Gjerde, 1995). Despite these changes, rates of mental health service use are far below rates of mental health disorders (Dew, Dunn, Bromet, & Schulberg, 1988;Hirschfeld et al, 1997;Logan & King, 2001;Offer, Howard, Schonert, & Ostrov, 1991;Wu et al, 1999), especially among adolescents.…”

“…Adults often visit physicians for emotional problems only when lay resources are exhausted (Angermeyer, Ratschinger & Reidel-Heller, 1999). Although adolescents are aware of both medical and non-medical help agents (e.g., physicians and school counselors) and are aware of how to access them, they also prefer non-medical interventions (e.g., high school counselor) to entering treatment with a medical professional (Offer et al, 1991).…”

Costruzione e Validazione del questionario ISCOS: uno studio preliminare sugli Indicatori di Sviluppo del COunselling Scolastico

“…Questi dati sono in linea con altri studi presenti in letteratura che, con particolare riferimento all'investimento di natura provocatoria, hanno sottolineato come uno dei principali ostacoli alla ricerca di aiuto sia la preferenza che gli adolescenti mostrano nel gestire da soli o con i pari i problemi personali, per mostrarsi così più autonomi e indipendenti dagli adulti (Bacchini, Esposito, & Affuso, 2009;Offer, Howard, Schonert, & Ostrov, 1991;Kuhl, Jarkon-Horlick, & Morrissey, 1997;Raviv et al, 2000Raviv et al, e 2009.…”

Flow Specification Patterns of End-User Programmers: Lessons Learnt from a Health Mobile Application Authoring Environment Design

“…However, a significant number of these applications fall short to success for longer intervention periods [19]. Several factors can account for this outcome, among which the inability to personalize and adapt content [17]. For instance, an application's presentation is typically the same for all users who download it.…”

“…Also, the evolution of the patient's health status often requires adjustments that applications are not ready to accompany. For example, monitoring thresholds vary, support messaging and data collection should be adapted to new clinical assessments [16] [17].…”