TOPIC: Help Seeking

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Publictions
• Confidentiality: Competing Principles, Inevitable Dilemma

Practice Notes & Information Resources
• An Aid for Initial Listing of Current Resources Used at a School for Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Conceptualizing Help for Students Victimized by Bullies
• Developing Systems at a School for Problem Identification, Triage, Referral, and Management of Care
• Interviewing and Monitoring Tools
• A personal look at self-reliance and help seeking
• Student and Learning Supports: Increasing Availability and Enhancing Student Access and Use
• A Student’s Proposal for Using an Online Chat Room to Facilitate Student Discussion

Technical Aid Packet
• Tools to Enhance Client Access to Information about Referral Resources
• Tools to Assist Clients with Referrals
• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care
• School-Based Mutual Support Groups

Introductory Packet
• Confidentiality and Informed Consent

• Adolescent Help-Seeking Behaviors
• Adolescent Opinions About Reducing Help-Seeking Barriers and Increasing Appropriate Help Engagement
• Adolescents’ Views on Seeking Help for Emotional and Behavioral Problems
• Examining mental health literacy, help seeking behaviours, and mental health outcomes in UK university students.
• Help-seeking experiences and attitudes among African American, Asian American, and European American college students.
• Help-Seeking Measures and Their Use in Adolescents: A Systematic Review
• How are perceived stigma, self-stigma, and self-reliance related to treatment-seeking? A three-path model.
• How the relationship of attitudes toward mental health treatment and service use differs by age, gender, ethnicity/race and education.
• Immigrant mental health, a public health issue: Looking back and moving forward.
• Interactions between youth and mental health professionals: The Youth Aware of Mental health (YAM) program experience
• Life Challenges and Barriers to Help Seeking: Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Voices of Mental Health
• Mental health and help-seeking among ethnic minority students
• Mental health literacy, stigma, and help-seeking behaviors among male college students.
• Mental Health Problems and Help-Seeking Behavior Among College Students
• Predictors of help-seeking behavior: Distinction between help-seeking intentions and help-seeking behavior
• Perceived barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking in young people: A systematic review.
• The Role of Informal Sources of Help In Young People’s Access To, Engagement With, And Maintenance In Professional Mental Health Care
• Self-reported barriers to professional help seeking among college students at elevated risk for suicide.
• Students' help-seeking behaviours by gender, racial background, and student status.
• A Systematic Review of the Facilitators and Barriers to Help-Seeking for Self-Harm in Young People: A Systems Thinking Perspective
• We pride ourselves on being strong… and able to bear a lot": examining the socio-cultural and historical context of Black Americans' experiences with depression and help-seeking.
• What Adolescents Seeking Help Teach us About a School-Based Counseling Service
• When do pupils talk about their problems? Explaining pupils’ intentions to seek help
• When self-reliance is not safe: Associations between reduced help-seeking and subsequent mental health symptoms in suicidal adolescents.
• Young people's help-seeking for mental health problems
• Young People’s Online Help-Seeking and Mental Health Difficulties
• Youth Mental Health Crisis Lines: Critical Players in a Complex Landscape of Mental Health Services
• Youth perceptions of suicide and help-seeking: ‘They'd think I was weak or “mental”’

• American Academy of School Administration
• American School Counselor Association
• National Association of Pupil Services Administration
• National Association of School Nurses
• National Association of School Psychologists
• School Social Work Association of America

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