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Promoting help-seeking among adolescents and young adults through consideration of the adaptive functions of low mood: a pilot study. |
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International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 13(4), November 2011, pp.30-35. |
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1462-3730 |
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Improving young people’s knowledge of depression and other mental illnesses may encourage them to seek help and therefore reduce the risk of suicide behaviour. Typically, the information presented to young people about mental health disorders has been based on a medical model, with depression framed as an illness analogous to a physical illness. This pilot study aimed to examine whether framing depression on the basis of evolutionary explanations for mental illness would influence help-seeking behaviour relative to the standard illness explanation. Specifically, the aim was to test an information sheet that contained these evolutionary concepts against an information sheet that used the medical model approach. The participants were 54 young adults, average age 19 years, 5 months, and 32 school-aged participants with an average age of 15 years, 2 months. After viewing information sheets, the participants rated which one they preferred according to how likely it would be to encourage them or others to seek help if feeling depressed. The majority of young adults preferred the evolutionary explanation, with even support for the 2 approaches from the school-aged participants. The findings provide a basis for further consideration of messages conveyed to young people about mental health problems. |
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depression; medical model; mental health education; young adults; young people; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=e13d17e5-2bb4-478a-a56a-5f068de32ab4 |
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