Seeking professional help for personal problems: Black American's use of health and mental health services
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Conceptual measurement framework for help-seeking for mental health problems
BACKGROUND Despite a high level of research, policy, and practice interest in help-seeking for mental health problems and mental disorders, there is currently no agreed and commonly used definition or conceptual measurement framework for help-seeking. METHODS A systematic review of research activity in the field was undertaken to investigate how help-seeking has been conceptualized and measur...
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عنوان ژورنال: Community Mental Health Journal
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0010-3853,1573-2789
DOI: 10.1007/bf00754731