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People dont seek support. we know that people obviously overcome quite a lot of psychological barriers when they seek help in a crisis. it is quite a difficult thing to do, and the feeling that they cant be helped effectively is often something that puts people off seeking help. and obviously, if they are feeling that no one will be able to offer them anything useful if confirmed, thats going to put people off further help—seeking. and i suppose in one way, you could see the fact that more peo...

Neoliberalism breeds an obsession with individual success and failure, fostering suicidal thoughts.

Aim: To critically synthesize the literature that describes men's help-seeking and engagement with general practice. Design: Integrative literature review. Data sources: CINAHL plus, Medline and APA PsycInfo were searched for papers published between 1999 and March 2021. Review methods: After screening titles and abstracts, full-text papers were screened against inclusion / exclusion criteria. All included papers were assessed for methodological quality. Findings were extracted, critically ...

There is evidence from around the world that rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) recorded by police have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, not all studies or data sources have shown a consistent increase, and it is not clear how these observed trends may have been influenced by changes in the propensity of victim-survivors to contact police during the pandemic. We use data from a large survey of women in Australia drawn from a national online research panel to examine correla...

The present study investigated the relationships between continuum and categorical beliefs, stigma, and help-seeking in response to vignettes depicting depression and schizophrenia. Participants were 193 adolescents aged 13-18 years. Results showed no relationships between continuum beliefs and stigma or help-seeking intentions for the depression vignette when controlling for other predictors. Stronger categorical beliefs were associated with greater social distance, and endorsement of dangerous...

Objective: When a person is missing, those left behind are at increased risk of experiencing mental health difficulties. However, little is known about mental health help-seeking among this population. The current study explored relationships between sociodemographic variables, loss characteristics, psychological symptoms, psychological disorder ”caseness”, and help-seeking behaviour among people with a missing loved one. Method: One hundred and ten people with a missing loved one completed ...

Young people living in families impacted by familial mental illness are at increased risk of various negative mental and physical health outcomes. Prevention and early intervention programmes are useful in mitigating the risk of transgenerational transmission of mental illness. Therapeutic recreation camps constitute a novel approach to mental health early intervention and prevention for these young people, incorporating educational experiences within a peer-based environment. This study assesse...

Background: Mental illness is a serious concern among adolescent males, as many disorders have their onset during adolescence and males are particularly reluctant to seek help. Increasing the rate of help-seeking amongst adolescent males is necessary to reduce the global burden of mental illness and protect the future health of this population. Organised sport may be an ideal vehicle for the delivery of mental health promotion to adolescent males. Aims: The aims of the research presented within ...

Most research investigating the effect of continuum beliefs on stigma has used weak manipulations which may contribute to mixed findings within the experimental literature. There is also a lack of research into how continuum belief manipulations may impact help-seeking and help-provision. This study used an online manipulation of continuum and categorical beliefs about schizophrenia to examine the subsequent impacts on stigma, help-seeking, and help-provision. A total of 271 participants were ra...

Suggests that. on the other hand, he apparently did not seek out anyone at school to say directly please help me. so there may have been a component of help seeking, he certainly, as far as we know, didnt make that e police it to anyone at the school. >> they did not. now we know these kids, these students are going to be traumatized as they have to go back to school at some appointment im sure there are normal signs of behavioral changes, some anxiety, some fear. talk to us as parents, what do ...