title: Mental Health Service Use Among Young Adults: A Communication Framework for Program Development.
abstract: Research on mental health service engagement has been dominated by attempts to identify determinants of engagement. Such knowledge is important but incomplete. Once identified, program designers need to use evidence-based principles to design programs to bring about changes in the empirically identified determinants. Research is relatively silent on such principles. This article develops a framework to guide program designers' as they address factors that constrain and/or facilitate engagement. The framework is grounded in communication theory and evidence from related behavioral science research. The literature is summarized and used to generate a check-list of questions to consider when structuring engagement programs.
authors.affiliation: Silver School of Social Work, New York University, 1 Washington Square North, New York, NY, 10003, USA. michelle.munson@nyu.edu.
authors.forename: Michelle R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Munson
authors.affiliation: Silver School of Social Work, New York University, 1 Washington Square North, New York, NY, 10003, USA.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jaccard
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D010358:Patient Participation; D016730:Program Development; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Communication framework; Intervention program development; Mental illness