Significant numbers of children have diagnosable mental health problems, but only a small
proportion of them receive appropriate services. Stigma has been associated with help …

Abstract Rural African American children living in poverty have a higher prevalence rate of
mental health disorders than their urban counterparts. While access to mental health …

The goals of this study were to identify whether barriers that parents perceived to using
health care differed by service type (medical vs. mental health care) and whether there were …

Objective: Research has identified several variables that affect utilization of mental health
services. However, more could be explored regarding ethnic differences among parents …

The present study examined the relationship between stigma and parental help-seeking
after controlling for demographics, child behavior, and barriers to treatment. One hundred …

Objective To examine parents' perceptions of stigma regarding mental health services for
their child, consider stigma in the context of novel service delivery settings (eg, telehealth …

Parents play a central role in utilization of mental health services by their children. This study
explored the relationship between parents' recognition of child mental health problems and …

Forty-one parents and their children (20 girls and 21 boys, mean age= 4.33 years, SD= 1.30)
participated in a study to examine how parents' personal use of mental health services …

Rationale Parents are one of several key gatekeepers to mental health (MH) services for
adolescents with MH problems. Parental MH stigma is a significant barrier to treatment, yet …

This study examined help-seeking and perceived barriers to children's mental health service
utilization in a large sample of parents living in rural communities who are at various stages …