title: Cultural and contextual influences in mental health help seeking: a focus on ethnic minority youth.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA. cauce@uswashington.edu
authors.forename: Ana Mari
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Cauce
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Domenech-Rodríguez
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paradise
authors.forename: Bryan N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Cochran
authors.forename: Jennifer Munyi
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Shea
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Srebnik
authors.forename: Nazli
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Baydar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003469:Culture; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care