Mental Health Literacy, stigma, and attitudes toward help-seeking at school for Asian- and Latino-American adolescents

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dc.contributor.advisorWang, Cixinen_US
dc.contributor.authorBarlis, Julia Emily Christineen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-02T05:32:16Z
dc.date.available2018-10-02T05:32:16Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractAlthough adolescents are most likely to receive mental health services in the school setting compared with other settings, few studies have examined barriers to mental health help-seeking at school for ethnic minority students. The current mixed-methods study utilized surveys and semi-structured interviews to examine the relation between mental health literacy (MHL), stigma, and attitudes toward formal help-seeking among 56 adolescents (50.0% Asian-American, 44.6% Latino-American, 5.4% Asian/Latino bi-racial; M age= 17.28 years, SD= 2.28). As hypothesized, stigma negatively predicted attitudes toward formal help-seeking. However, contrary to our hypotheses and prior work, MHL did not predict attitudes toward formal help-seeking. Qualitative analysis revealed important knowledge, attitudinal, and practical barriers that inhibit minority adolescents from seeking help for mental health problems at school. The current work has implications to assist school personnel and service providers in understanding and reducing barriers to care, particularly for Asian- and Latino-American adolescents at school.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2V698G5W
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/21445
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMental healthen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducational psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMental Health Literacyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMinority adolescentsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSchool-based mental health servicesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledStigmaen_US
dc.titleMental Health Literacy, stigma, and attitudes toward help-seeking at school for Asian- and Latino-American adolescentsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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