Cultural and contextual influences in mental health help seeking: a focus on ethnic minority youth.
In this article, a mental health help-seeking model is offered as a framework for understanding cultural and contextual factors that affect ethnic minority adolescents' pathways into mental health services. The effects of culture and context are profound across the entire help-seeking pathway, from problem identification to choice of treatment providers. The authors argue that an understanding of these help-seeking pathways provides insights into ethnic group differences in mental health care utilization and that further research in this area is needed.
Cauce
Ana Mari
AM
Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA. cauce@uswashington.edu
Domenech-Rodríguez
Melanie
M
Paradise
Matthew
M
Cochran
Bryan N
BN
Shea
Jennifer Munyi
JM
Srebnik
Debra
D
Baydar
Nazli
N
D000293:Adolescent; D003469:Culture; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care