Correlates of unmet need for mental health services by children and adolescents

Flisher, Alan J.; Kramer, Rebecca K.; Grosser, René C.; Alegrı́a, Margarita; Bird, Héctor R.; Bourdon, Karen; Goodman, Sherryl H.; Greenwald, Steven; Horwitz, Sarah M.; Moore, R. E.; Narrow, William E.; Hoven, Christina W.

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“…Confirmation has also been found for the influence of parental attitudes and beliefs [17,37], education level [15,26,40], and family stress [11,19,20,31,42,50] on help seeking.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…The presence of additional medical and school-related problems has repeatedly been shown to increase help seeking for child psychopathology [17,19,26,50]. Since school problems did not increase parental prob- s Parent and family characteristics influencing the first filter…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although these problems can hamper everyday functioning and well-being, only a minority of disordered children and adolescents receive help from mental health services [6,17,33].…”

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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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“…Confirmation has also been found for the influence of parental attitudes and beliefs [17,37], education level [15,26,40], and family stress [11,19,20,31,42,50] on help seeking.…”

Section: S Child Characteristics Influencing the First Filtermentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: S Child Characteristics Influencing the First Filtermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Help seeking for emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents

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Bensing

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“…Compared with detained youth who had received services, those who had never received services were, in general, more likely to be concerned about what others might think about them, to be uncertain about where to seek services, and to be unsure if they could afford services. These barriers are also common among untreated youth 37 and adults 52 with mental health disorders in the general population. We also found, however, that females who had received services in the past were more likely to be skeptical about using services in the future than those who had never received services.…”

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Perceived Barriers to Mental Health Services Among Youths in Detention

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Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psych

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“…The pathway that leads to professional mental health care for children with psychopathology is paved with obstacles, causing a discrepancy between the number of disordered children in the community and those receiving professional care (Burns et al, 1995;Flisher et al, 1997;Leaf et al, 1996;Pavuluri et al, 1996;Verhulst and Van der Ende, 1997). Understanding which factors are involved in the help-seeking process may provide suggestions on how to increase service use for these children.…”

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