Download or read book Factors Contributing to Mental Health Help Seeking Among African American College Students written by Keyia N. Carlton and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mental Health written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correlates of Mental Health Help Seeking Behavior Among African American College Students written by Crystal Lynn Barksdale and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sample consisted of 219 college students of African descent, with a greater number of females than males. ANCOVAs and multiple regression analyses were implemented to explore and understand the relationship between study variables. Females were found to have more positive attitudes toward seeking psychological help, and higher intentions to seek psychological help when necessary, compared to males. When considered separately, perceived negative peer norms and perceived negative family norms were found to predict help-seeking intentions, while perceived negative community norms did not. When the three levels of perceived negative norms were considered together, only perceived negative family norms was found to predict help-seeking intentions for psychological concerns. Results also showed that individuals with more positive attitudes toward seeking psychological help had higher intentions to seek professional help for psychological concerns, when necessary. The results of this study have implications for clinical intervention and research of mental health service usage among African American late adolescents and early adults. When trying to understand help-seeking intentions among African Americans, family norms are the most prominent factor to consider.
Download or read book The Impact of a Culturally Relevant Psychoeducational Intervention on Depression Health Care Seeking Among African American College Students written by Benita Adejoke Bamgbade and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to develop a culturally relevant theory-based psychoeducational intervention for African American (AA) college students and to understand how it can impact depression help seeking willingness and subsequent behavior. The study tested the impact of the intervention on participants’ willingness, attitude, perceived behavioral control (PBC) and mental illness stigma (MIS) from baseline to immediate post-test. Additionally, utilizing the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), the study tested the significance of each TPB model construct variable (attitude, subjective norm [SN] and PBC) in predicting AA college students’ willingness to seek professional help for depression. The study also examined the contributions of MIS and cultural variables (medical mistrust, self-reliance and religiosity) to the TPB model. Of the 103 AA college students who signed up to participate in the study intervention, 75 completed the paper pre-test (72.8% participation rate). Of these participants, 70 (93.3%) completed the paper immediate post-test and 50 (66.7%) completed the web-based 3 month follow-up survey. Three focus groups were conducted to collect information regarding AA college students’ beliefs toward seeking professional help for depression. The intervention improved AA college students’ willingness to seek professional help, their attitude toward professional help seeking, their perceived behavioral control over professional help seeking and decreased their MIS. The TPB constructs were not significant predictors of AA college student’s willingness. Neither the direct nor the indirect models were statistically significant, explaining only 12.1 percent (Adjusted R2= 3.4%) and 15.0 percent (Adjusted R2= 5.4%) of the variance in willingness, respectively. Additionally, MIS and the cultural variables did not add to the prediction of willingness. The results of this study support the utility of culturally relevant psychoeducational interventions for AA college students in improving willingness to seek professional help. The mechanism by which this occurs is unclear and may not be through the TPB model. Future studies evaluating factors that impact AA college students’ willingness to seek help for depression are needed to better understand help seeking in this population and to further refine culturally relevant psychoeducational interventions.
Download or read book Mental Health Care in the African American Community written by Sadye Logan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of an African American’s lifetime, mental health care needs change according to an individual’s unique interactions with his or her environment. Mental Health Care in the African-American Community uses this perspective to provide a deeper analysis of factors and issues affecting the mental health of African Americans. This comprehensive text provides a current and historical analysis of the impact of mental health research, policy, community, and clinical practice from a life course perspective. Stressing evidence-based practice as an expanded way to think and talk about individualizing and translating evidence into a given practice situation, this valuable book provides a social work context for all helping professions. Mental Health Care in the African-American Community provides the helping community with non-traditional, expanded ways of thinking and intervening in the mental health needs and care of African Americans. Organized logically, this complex subject presents data in a user-friendly way that engages the reader, and provides chapter summaries and suggested group/classroom activities to facilitate understanding. This text is extensively referenced and includes figures and tables to clearly illustrate data. Topics in Mental Health Care in the African-American Community include: a historical overview of African Americans’ mental health care a conceptual and theoretical framework for African Americans’ mental health current issues affecting mental health intervention for African Americans mental health in group homes and foster care depression substance abuse poverty ADHD suicide mental health in elderly African Americans mental health policy rural African American mental health needs kinship care multiethnic families and children much, much more! Mental Health Care in the African-American Community is a valuable textbook for practitioners; administrators; researchers; policymakers; educators; and students in social work, psychology, mental health services, case management, and community planning.
Download or read book Mental Health Matters written by Tamecia M. Curry and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence indicates that people of color underutilize mental health services, but little is known empirically about the help-seeking behaviors of African American emerging adults. The present mixed method study utilizes a concurrent design with nested samples for the qualitative and quantitative components to examine willingness to seek help and help-seeking intentions among college students. Data was collected from four location sites including Louisiana State University (n=38), Texas State University (n=15), The University of Southern Mississippi (n=65) and Southern University and A&M College (n=3). Minority and non-minority participants completed the Willingness-To-Seek-Help Questionnaire and the General Help-Seeking Questionnaire (n=120; M age=24 years; range= 18-29 years). Concurrently, African American emerging adult participants (n=6) who have sought out professional mental health treatment within the past 12 months completed in-depth interviews. Main findings include that minority emerging adults report lower willingness to seek formal psychological help than non-minority emerging adults. Minority emerging adults report lower formal help-seeking intention for suicidal or emotional problems. Findings include causes of distress, sources of support, and factors that encourage and discourage formal help-seeking among African American emerging adults. Correlational analysis showed that, among African American emerging adults, race and age are predictive of low willingness to seek help and age, gender and school affiliation are predictive of general help-seeking behavior. Findings of a thematic analysis showed that perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, self-efficacy, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cues to action and social support are all constructs that influence the formal help-seeking experience. A policy implication is to improve public health policies to increase access to formal mental health treatment. Policy and practice implications are to promote and support the use of non-traditional formal support, such as teletherapy on college campuses and at community mental health centers. Other solutions for barriers to formal mental health services are discussed.
Download or read book African Americans and Depression written by Julia F. Hastings and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depression does not discriminate, and yet the ways in which people and communities view and react to depression differ. The unique experiences of African Americans are often taken into account when examining other topics of interest, but mental health in general is often overlooked. African Americans and Depression helps to uncover the realities of depression among African Americans, and the various ways in which sufferers and their families address, or don’t address, it. The authors provide guidance for understanding the illness, suggestions on how to heal and recover holistically, and pathways for getting help. With a primary focus on the psychological and medical needs of African Americans, the authors explore and offer an overview of clinical depression among African Americans, discuss the signs of and cultural myths surrounding clinical depression, outline the mental health help-seeking process for African Americans, and suggest potential barriers and strategies for healing. Further, they discuss community-based interventions and innovations in service programs. Lastly, the authors offer insight on mental health and health policy in the United States care systems. Including firsthand accounts from sufferers and families, this work will aid readers to better understand depression and how and where to find help.
Download or read book Stigma Self concealment and Mentoring Relationships Effect on Help seeking Attitudes of African American College Students written by Dana Michelle Bannerman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has shown that the African American community underuses professional mental health services and has generally more negative attitudes toward seeking help for mental health challenges than their European American counterparts. Stigma surrounding mental illness and the desire to keep challenges secret from others are two factors that have received much attention in the literature examining this phenomenon (Mishra, Lucksted, Gioia, Barnet, & Baquet, 2009; Thompson, Bazile, & Akbar, 2004; Larson & Chastain, 1990; Cramer, 1999). Further, social support has also been linked to help-seeking attitudes in the African American community, (Pickard, Inoue, Chadiha, & Johnson, 2011; Constantine, Wilton, & Caldwell, 2003). The current study assessed help-seeking attitudes, mental health stigma, self concealment, stigmatizing attitudes towards mental health and mentoring experience in 123 African American/Black college students. Mental health stigma, self-concealment, mentoring experience, and help-seeking attitudes demonstrated statistically significant bivariate correlations in expected directions. Further, a linear multiple regression analysis revealed stigma and self-concealment to be mediators in the relationship between mentoring and help-seeking attitudes. Finally, differences were discovered between mentoring type and mentoring experience. Students with both informal and formal mentors had the best mentoring experience in comparison to students with neither or informal mentor. Results from the current study further support the idea that mentoring relationships play a role in reducing stigma and self-concealment, which contribute to better help-seeking attitudes for African American college students. The importance of mentoring relationships to variables related to better well-being are discussed.
Download or read book Handbook of Race and Development in Mental Health written by Edward Chang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project is unique in the field for a number of reasons, both in structure and in content. Specifically, it will have leading experts on specific age groups (Childhood to Adolescence, Young Adulthood to Middle Age, and The Elderly) within the cultural groups of interest (European-Americans, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Native Americans) contribute a chapter covering current research on both positive and negative functioning for each population. Each chapter will present basic demographic information, strengths that contribute to resilience, and three significant challenges each group faces to maintaining mental health. Each chapter will then include an integrative section, where ideas are advanced about how the strengths of each group can be harnessed to address the challenges that group faces. To conclude, each chapter will propose future directions for research which addresses integrative approaches to mental health for each group, and the implications that such approaches could have for future treatment. The main points of each section of each chapter will be visually summarized in a concluding table.
Download or read book Mental Health among African Americans written by Erlanger A. Turner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mental Health among African Americans: Innovations in Research and Practice, Erlanger A. Turner presents a new theoretical framework for understanding mental health disparities that emphasizes the need for culturally sensitive clinical practices and integration of Afrocentric values in order to address the lower rates of African Americans seeking treatment in the United States. Turner traces this reluctance to the unethical scientific research practices that characterized experiments in recent history, like the well-known Tuskegee Syphilis study, and stresses the need for providers to address race-related stress.
Download or read book Clinical and Cultural Barriers to Psychological Help Seeking in African American College Students written by Samuel K. Schachner and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study evaluated clinical and cultural barriers to help seeking to identify which factor best predicted African American undergraduate student initial attitudes towards seeking professional psychological help (ATSPPH-short form). Predictor variables included anticipated utility, emotional openness, cultural mistrust, racial identity development, and stigma. Moderator variables controlled for prior counseling, gender and site. This study built upon prior research by evaluating clinical and cultural factors together and utilizing an information processing model to conceptualize data (Vogel et al., 2006). The focus on African American undergraduate students was based on retention problems for this population (American Council on Education, 2006) and underutilization of counseling by this population despite evidence of links between counseling & college persistence (Alford, 2000; Hamilton, 2006; Kearney, Draper & Barron, 2005; Trippi & Cheatham, 1991; & Wilson, Mason & Ewing, 1997). Sixty seven students from two Northeastern US colleges were surveyed. Direct correlation analysis found nine significant relationships with ATSPPH. Controlled for prior counseling use, anticipated benefit (r = .423, p=.001), Emotional Openness (r = .330, p=.010), and an Assimilationist Ideology of Racial Identity (r = .296, p=.022) were correlated with ATSPPH. Stepwise Multiple Regression found four significant predictors of attitudes, anticipated benefit (F=15.062, p
Download or read book A Qualitative Analysis of Professional Psychological Help seeking Attitudes Among African American Women written by Paula M. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African American Male College Students Help seeking Attitudes as a Function of Problem Severity and Gender Role written by Dwaine S. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Theoretically based Mixed Methods Approach to Examining Mental Health Disorders and Help seeking Behaviors Among University enrolled African American Men written by Kofoworola Damilola Adenike Williams and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent studies show that African American men in college are disproportionately experiencing high levels of psychological distress, increasing their risk of developing mental health symptoms associated with depression and anxiety. Despite being at higher risk for developing mental health symptoms, university-enrolled, African American men are not seeking help even when experiencing high levels of stress and anxiety, impacting their academic performance. The evidence base describing mental health symptom prevalence and evidence-based prevention strategies among university-enrolled, African American men is limited. To that end, this dissertation work utilized a concurrent, mixed methods approach, theoretically-based in the Social Ecological Model (SEM), to examine the prevalence and correlates of anxiety and depressive symptoms among university-enrolled, African American men, and the contextual factors that impact their perceptions of mental health-related help-seeking. Overall, findings showed that: 1) African American men on this campus are reporting endorsement of anxiety and depressive symptoms at lower rates compared to their male and female counterparts; 2) African American men are utilizing campus health services at lower rates compared to their male and female counterparts; 3) stressful life events are a robust predictor of anxiety and depressive symptoms among this population; and 4) formal therapeutic services may not be preferred or suitable for these men. Researchers, campus-based practitioners, and policymakers who wish to develop effective mental health prevention programs that attenuate mental health risk and increase help-seeking behavior among African American men should aim to expand on these findings and considerations. Importantly, future programming efforts should aim to promote peer-to-peer support and informal, nontraditional methods as viable points for future scientific inquiry, as well as for the development, implementation and evaluation of effective mental health prevention programs. This dissertation study is one of the first to focus specifically on mental health risk and help-seeking behaviors among African American men on a college campus. Hence, further quantitative and qualitative research is needed to improve mental health among this severely marginalized and vulnerable population. Implications for future research are discussed in the following chapters.
Download or read book Black Minds Matter written by Mika Hogains and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose: Despite having greater stress and historical trauma than other races, African Americans are less likely to seek mental health services. Previous studies have posited any number of reasons for this dearth in help-seeking, but few have qualitatively sought the voices of African Americans themselves. Research Question: What are the specific barriers faced by African Americans that cause seeking, receiving, and engaging in mental health services challenging? Methods: The researchers conducted in-depth interviews (N=10) with African American adults who sought mental health services in order to obtain qualitative data. Results: A thematic analysis of transcribed interviews presented 6 areas of concern for mental health help-seeking: (1) Experience (2) Community Perception (3) Access (4) Individual Barriers (5) Misconceptions, and (6) Benefits Service. These themes, along with a variety of subthemes, are discussed in detail. Discussion: African Americans identified multiple experiences within their community that impacted their treatment-seeking behaviors and attitudes. Findings from this study provide a greater understanding of the African American experience associated with their perception of mental health and its influence on attitudes toward mental health services.
Download or read book College Psychiatry written by Michelle B. Riba and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the practical strategies outlined by national thought leaders to improve access to mental health care in the practice of college psychiatry. It addresses the escalating need for mental health services on college and university campuses. Concise yet comprehensive, the book considers the college experience for the increasingly diverse student body, including non-traditional college students, first-generation college students, and students with a history of mental illness. Beginning with a discussion on the current national health trends in college mental health, chapter one explores the current epidemiology of student mental health problems, the systemic challenges in recruitment, and funding psychiatric services. Subsequent chapters then delve into the various systems and models of psychiatric care for college students, including differing parental involvement levels and the importance of collaborative care to short term management and referral of students at risk. Chapters five and six examine mental health considerations for LGBTQ, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color students. Further chapters analyze the critical nature of successfully navigating a leave of absence, as well as the consideration of threat assessment on college campuses. The book closes with a highly relevant evaluation of telemental health and telepsychiatry in the College Setting as it pertains to the ongoing barriers to care caused by COVID-19. Socially conscious and timely, College Psychiatry is an indispensable text for all mental health professionals.
Download or read book Handbook of Mental Health in African American Youth written by Alfiee M. Breland-Noble and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook fills major gaps in the child and adolescent mental health literature by focusing on the unique challenges and resiliencies of African American youth. It combines a cultural perspective on the needs of the population with best-practice approaches to interventions. Chapters provide expert insights into sociocultural factors that influence mental health, the prevalence of particular disorders among African American adolescents, ethnically salient assessment and diagnostic methods, and the evidence base for specific models. The information presented in this handbook helps bring the field closer to critical goals: increasing access to treatment, preventing misdiagnosis and over hospitalization, and reducing and ending disparities in research and care. Topics featured in this book include: The epidemiology of mental disorders in African American youth. Culturally relevant diagnosis and assessment of mental illness. Uses of dialectical behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy. Community approaches to promoting positive mental health and psychosocial well-being. Culturally relevant psychopharmacology. Future directions for the field. The Handbook of Mental Health in African American Youth is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in child and school psychology, public health, family studies, child and adolescent psychiatry, family medicine, and social work.
