Mental health services are underutilised by people who could benefit from treatment.
Research into help-seeking intentions (HSI) is required to support interventions to increase …

The objectives of this study were to explore age and gender differences in attitudes toward
seeking professional psychological help, and to examine whether attitudes negatively …

Attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help (ATSPPH) are complex. Help
seeking preferences are influenced by various attitudinal and socio-demographic factors …

Despite its utility, several conceptual and methodological concerns are raised regarding
Fischer and Turner's (1970) Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help …

This article uses the Health Belief Model (HBM; Health Education Monographs, 1974, 2:
409) as a framework for explaining what factors might encourage or inhibit an individual …

This Third Edition of the bestselling Psychotherapy with Older Adults continues to offer
students and professionals a thorough overview of psychotherapy with older adults. Using …

Background: Older adults with mental health disorders underutilize mental health services
more than other adults. While there are well known general barriers to help seeking across …

Evidence indicates that older adults underutilize mental health services, but little is known
empirically about the perceptions older adults have about mental illness and their attitudes …

This study examined intrinsic and extrinsic barriers to mental health care among younger
(n= 76; M age= 23 years) and older adults (n= 88; M age= 71 years) using a new 56 item self …

It is commonly assumed that older and younger adults have very different attitudes about
seeking mental health services and that this is a major factor in reducing the use of mental …