“Getting better at getting better”: How Sharing Mental Health Stories Can Shape Young People’s Wellbeing

Lindstrom, Genesis; Sofija, Ernesta; Riley, T. V.

doi:10.1007/s10597-021-00786-w

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“…batyr Launched in 2011, batyr is a preventive mental health organization in Australia that aims to reduce stigma and promote help-seeking. The batyr model draws upon a body of evidence highlighting the association between disclosure, stigma and well-being 80 . batyr delivers educational workshops on mental health in schools (batyr@ school), universities (batyr@uni) and workplaces (batyr@work).…”

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“…The Being Herd program has trained over 700 young people to date and has been associated with improved well-being in trainees as well as reduced self-stigma and stigma towards others 80 . The batyr@ school program has reached over 200,000 young people across 352 secondary schools in Australia.…”

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“…Launched in 2011, batyr is a preventive mental health organization in Australia that aims to reduce stigma and promote help‐seeking. The batyr model draws upon a body of evidence highlighting the association between disclosure, stigma and well‐being 80 .…”

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Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care

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Mental ill‐health represents the main threat to the health, survival and future potential of young people around the world. There are indications that this is a rising tide of vulnerability and need for care, a trend that has been augmented by the COVID‐19 pandemic. It represents a global public health crisis, which not only demands a deep and sophisticated understanding of possible targets for prevention, but also urgent reform and investment in the provision of developmentally appropriate clinical care. Despite having the greatest level of need, and potential to benefit, adolescents and emerging adults have the worst access to timely and quality mental health care. How is this global crisis to be addressed? Since the start of the century, a range of co‐designed youth mental health strategies and innovations have emerged. These range from digital platforms, through to new models of primary care to new services for potentially severe mental illness, which must be locally adapted according to the availability of resources, workforce, cultural factors and health financing patterns. The fulcrum of this progress is the advent of broad‐spectrum, integrated primary youth mental health care services. They represent a blueprint and beach‐head for an overdue global system reform. While resources will vary across settings, the mental health needs of young people are largely universal, and underpin a set of fundamental principles and design features. These include establishing an accessible, “soft entry” youth primary care platform with digital support, where young people are valued and essential partners in the design, operation, management and evaluation of the service. Global progress achieved to date in implementing integrated youth mental health care has highlighted that these services are being accessed by young people with genuine and substantial mental health needs, that they are benefiting from them, and that both these young people and their families are highly satisfied with the services they receive. However, we are still at base camp and these primary care platforms need to be scaled up across the globe, complemented by prevention, digital platforms and, crucially, more specialized care for complex and persistent conditions, aligned to this transitional age range (from approximately 12 to 25 years). The rising tide of mental ill‐health in young people globally demands that this focus be elevated to a top priority in global health.

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“…Thus, when delivered in the right way, such responding may also serve to reduce perceived social stigma and negative social evaluation or comparison. Other research supports the role of telling ‘their stories’ and sharing experiences around mental health in empowering individuals, reducing perceived social stigma by removing some of the ‘direct’ fear of social judgement and improving well‐being 39 . In addition to personal beliefs and stigmas, perceived social stigma is a significant predictor of intention to seek help in adolescence 40 .…”

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Developing a novel co‐produced methodology to understand ‘real‐world’ help‐seeking in online peer–peer communities by young people experiencing emotional abuse and neglect

Bennett

Gill

Miller

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Informed consent was not required. The study utilises open access data. Service users are informed that their data may be used for evaluation and research purposes.We acknowledge the valuable contributions of all NeurOX YPAG members who were involved in the research and those involved in the preparation (outlines) of this publication. We wish to acknowledge the support and collaboration with Childline throughout the research and dissemination process. In particular, we are grateful for the knowledge, expertise and input provided by Kirsty Donnelly from Childline. We are also grateful for support from Jessica Johansson during the project. The authors appreciated the time offered by Prof. Jane Appleton for reviews of the draft manuscript.

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“…Other research supports the role of telling 'their stories' and sharing experiences around mental health in empowering individuals, reducing perceived social stigma by removing some of the 'direct' fear of social judgement, and improving well-being. 37 In addition to personal beliefs and stigmas, perceived social stigma is a significant predictor of intention to seek help in adolescence. 38 These were evident across themes for help-seeker and peer supporter posts in this study.…”

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Developing novel co-produced methodology to understand ‘real-world’ help-seeking in online peer-peer communities by young people experiencing emotional abuse and neglect

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Gill²,

Miller³

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Background: Recent systematic reviews suggest mediating factors (barriers and facilitators) of help-seeking for children and young people (CYP) with a range of mental health problems but highlight the need for more robust methodology underpinned by theoretical frameworks. Emotional abuse and neglect is the most prevalent and pervasive form of abuse, with many CYP remaining unknown to professional services. These CYP are underrepresented in help-seeking research yet seek help from their peers via anonymous online publicly available message communities. Objectives: To sensitively co-develop qualitative methodology to explore ‘real-world’ data to inform our understanding of help-seeking for these CYP, and define potential mediators (barriers and facilitators) and mechanisms of change associated with online peer support.Methods: Co-production with 10 young co-researchers (YCoR; aged 14-18 years) from NeurOX Young People’s Advisory Board (YPAG) included co-development and triangulation of different research methods (i.e., interpretative phenomenological, thematic, and conversation analyses) to analyse rich ethnographic material from 20 publicly available online message conversations between help-seekers experiencing or questioning emotional abuse and neglect. A theoretical model of adolescent help-seeking proposed by Rickwood et al. (2005) was used as a conceptual framework to guide methodological development. Results: The methodological approach facilitated identification of barriers and facilitators of help-seeking contextualised to the lives of these CYP: understanding and validating of abuse, emotional competence, fears and uncertainties around disclosure, knowledge, motivational factors, and connection/trusted relationships. Notably, positive changes in expressed or perceived ‘psychological state’ and/or intention to seek help were noticed in 9 of 10 message threads that included a ‘conversation’ (≥3 posts). Themes associated with change related to: connection with supportive peers; compassionate responding; and, the safeness of the online community. The existing adolescent help-seeking model was found to be too simplistic to account for help-seeking associated with emotional abuse and neglect. Conclusion: The novel methodological approach offers a meaningful way to explore ‘real-world’ data with YCoR, for a population underrepresented in help-seeking research. Proposed relational mechanisms involve connection, compassion and online communities. Further research coproduced with YCoR with diverse care experiences and characteristics is required to upscale the methodology and further validate and extend the findings.Public contribution: The core study was co-produced with 10 young co-researchers from the NeurOX YPAG who have been involved in over 135 hours on and offline work. Their roles involved co-deciding the direction of the study, evolving methodology, detailed co-analysis and reflective processes throughout all aspects of the study, interpretation, presentation and discussion of the findings with the NSPCC and Childline, and involvement in all communications. Additional consultation and involvement included further interested members of the NeurOX YPAG for the final online workshop and dissemination outputs.

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“Getting better at getting better”: How Sharing Mental Health Stories Can Shape Young People’s Wellbeing

Cited by 18 publications

References 26 publications

Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care

Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care

Developing a novel co‐produced methodology to understand ‘real‐world’ help‐seeking in online peer–peer communities by young people experiencing emotional abuse and neglect

Developing novel co-produced methodology to understand ‘real-world’ help-seeking in online peer-peer communities by young people experiencing emotional abuse and neglect

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