The Influence of Stigma on College Students' Attitudes Toward Online Video Counseling and Face‐to‐Face Counseling

Abstract

The difference in attitudes toward online video counseling and face-to-face counseling and the relationship between stigma and these attitudes were investigated among a sample of 588 college students. Attitudes toward face-to-face counseling are more favorable compared with those toward online video counseling. However, self-stigma does not influence attitudes toward online video counseling to the same extent as face-to-face counseling. Services delivered through online video counseling may be beneficial for those experiencing higher levels of stigma.

Mental Illness Stigma and Help‐Seeking Attitudes of Students With Immigrant Parents

“…Of note, the current sample's descriptive statistics for the SSOSH scale are comparable with those of other recent studies with college student samples (Bird et al, 2019). Moreover, the mean of our sample on the SSOSH ( M = 2.39, SD = 0.74) is similar to that from a Korean college student sample ( M = 2.33, SD = 0.59; Kim & Yon, 2019).…”

“…According to the modified labeling theory of stigma (Link et al, 1989), adults in the United States often think of both mental health issues and seeking professional help unfavorably through a socialization process. Previous research has supported this socialization path in which public/societal stigma toward MI is internalized by individuals (i.e., self‐stigma), which in turn leads to more unfavorable help‐seeking attitudes among college students (Bird et al, 2019).…”

“…Moreover, receiving individual therapy is fundamentally based on the sharing of personal information with a counselor, which is more acceptable in individualistic cultures than in collectivistic cultures, because sharing such information with a “stranger” could be perceived as a failure of primary community support (e.g., family, church; Choi et al, 2019). All of these sociocultural factors may have contributed to the research findings that college students from immigrant families tend to endorse higher MI stigma, more negative attitudes toward seeking psychological services, and lower utilization of these services (Bird et al, 2019; Choi et al, 2019).…”

“…University counseling centers can actively implement psychoeducational programs and outreach interventions to reduce stigma, as well as increase awareness of anticipated benefits related to help seeking (Ramos‐Sánchez & Atkinson, 2009). A recent study found that MI stigma does not influence attitudes toward video counseling to the same extent as it affects face‐to‐face counseling (Bird et al, 2019). Thus, college counseling centers may consider offering and advertising the option of video counseling as a way to decrease the barrier that MI stigma poses to mental health service utilization in immigrant‐origin college students.…”

Intervenção psicológica à distância em tempos de pandemia: da revisão de literatura à reflexão profissional

“…Esta forma de eliminar a distância, geográfica, temporal, ou até circadiana (Grady et al, 2011) possibilita estabelecer a comunicação de forma síncrona (em tempo real), ou assíncrona, em função do meio tecnológico utilizado. Segundo vários autores, as intervenções à distância visam, essencialmente, facilitar o acesso aos serviços de saúde mental e reduzir a estigmatização associada à utilização dos mesmos (Bird, Chow, Meir, & Freeman, 2019;Bush, Armstrong, & Hoyt, 2019;Chakrabarti, 2015;Edirippulige, Levandovskaya, & Prishutova, 2013;Joyce, 2012;Morland et al, 2013;Whealin et al, 2015). A intervenção por videoconferência é a que mais se assemelha às do tipo presencial, por possibilitar que os intervenientes se vejam e ouçam em tempo real (Berger, 2017).…”