Social‐cognitive determinants of help‐seeking for mental health problems among prison inmates

Skogstad, Philip; Deane, Frank P.; Spicer, John

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“…Skogstad, Deane, and Spicer (2006) first investigated psychological help-seeking intentions among a sample of 527 male New Zealand prison inmates. Using multiple regression analyses, the TPB model was found to explain 44% of variance in intentions, with all three of the direct determinants significantly predicting intentions.…”

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Intentions to participate in counselling among front-line, at-risk Irish government employees: an application of the theory of planned behaviour

McLaughlin¹,

Boduszek²,

Prentice³

2012

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

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The study set out to examine intentions to engage in counselling among at-risk Irish government employees and the differential utility of two alternative theory of planned behaviour (TPB) models of behaviour to explain intentions to participate in counselling. Individuals (N 0259) employed in a front-line, at-risk occupation for the Irish government completed a TPB-based questionnaire. Quantitative analyses revealed that participants held positive to neutral intentions to participate in counselling, irrespective of gender. The original TPB model explained 49.9% of variance in intentions whereas an alternative TPB model, splitting the perceived behavioural control (PBC) construct between its internal and external control components, explained a further 8.9% of variance. Furthermore, self-efficacy was found to be the strongest predictor of intentions. This study therefore supports the use of the TPB in understanding counsellingseeking behaviour.

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Intentions to participate in counselling among front-line, at-risk Irish government employees: an application of the theory of planned behaviour

McLaughlin¹,

Boduszek²,

Prentice³

2012

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

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“…This finding is inconsistent with other studies on helpseeking attitudes with different populations. Skogstad et al (2006) found that attitude was the strongest predictor of the prisoners' help-seeking intentions. The participants' overall average scores on the Attitudes towards Seeking Mental Health Services (IASMHS) suggested positive general attitudes toward seeking mental health services; however, attitude was a weak predictor of the students' intentions to seek mental health services.…”

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“…Ajzen's (1991) Theory of Planned Behavior, which is an extension of the Theory of Reasoned Action (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975), suggests that a person's attitudes toward a given behavior, subjective norms in relation to the behavior and perceived control over the behavior are typically good predictors of intentions to perform the behavior. Ajzen's (1991) Theory of Planned Behavior has been used in a wide variety of research to predict and understand a range of behaviors, and help-seeking intentions (Skogstad, Deane, & Spicer, 2006;Mo & Mak, 2010;Westerhof, Maessen, de Bruijin, & Smets, 2008). To better understand this theory's utility for predicting mental health help-seeking intentions among international and African-American college students, it is critical to explore the influence of the components of this model on mental health utilization among these students.…”

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Theory of Planned Behavior

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2008

Encyclopedia of Epidemiology

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“…In a much larger sample Skogstad et al (2006) also assessed the intentions to seek help for personal-emotional problems. The general attitude towards seeking professional psychological help influenced the intentions to seek help, as did interpersonal factors like social pressure.…”

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A Theoretical Framework for Goal‐directed Care within the Prison System

Bulten¹,

Vissers²,

Oei

2008

Mental Health Review Journal

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A theoretical framework for goal-directed care within the prison system Bulten, E.; Vissers, A.; Oei, T.I. Published in: Mental Health Review Journal Publication date: 2008 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA):Bulten, E., Vissers, A., & Oei, T. I. (2008). A theoretical framework for goal-directed care within the prison system. Mental Health Review Journal, 13(3), 40-50. General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.-Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research -You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain -You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright, please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. are of importance in defining the availability, the aims and the quality of care and treatment. This group of stakeholders consists of prisoners, the providers of care, the prison system, the government and society. As a consequence, the goals involved in care are divergent. There is no sound theoretical framework comprised of welldefined concepts and that also accounts for the complexity of care in prison.Although prevention and the transfer of inmates to more specialized facilities are necessary, the focus in this article is on describing the processes involved in seeking and providing care within the prison system. We discuss a broad theory and its conceptual framework, in which we differentiate between prisoners with emotional suffering versus those without, the need for care from an objective point of view as opposed to a subjective one, need for care related to mental health problems versus need for care related to limiting recidivism, and the process of care seeking under the influence of approach in contrast to avoidance factors. The equivalency principle should have a substantial impact on the processes involved in this type of mental health care.In the Netherlands, there is great interest in the issue of mental health care during detention. Politicians, the government and professionals all contribute to this increasing interest. The quality of care is also an issue, especially in regard to the standards of equivalence, which impose similar services in both correctional and non correctional settings. In addition, there is a partly contradicting tendency toward being tougher on crime, tougher in sentencing and being more strict during detention.

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Social‐cognitive determinants of help‐seeking for mental health problems among prison inmates

Cited by 64 publications

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Intentions to participate in counselling among front-line, at-risk Irish government employees: an application of the theory of planned behaviour

Intentions to participate in counselling among front-line, at-risk Irish government employees: an application of the theory of planned behaviour

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A Theoretical Framework for Goal‐directed Care within the Prison System

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