Seeking professional help for personal problems: Black American's use of health and mental health services
dc.contributor.author | Neighbors, Harold W. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T14:35:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T14:35:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1985-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Neighbors, Harold W.; (1985). "Seeking professional help for personal problems: Black American's use of health and mental health services." Community Mental Health Journal 21(3): 156-166. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44301> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-2789 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0010-3853 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44301 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=4075772&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This article explored the use of health and mental health services for serious personal problems in a national sample of adult black Americans. The results indicated low usage of the mental health sector in response to problems. Only 9% of the respondents who sought professional help contacted a community mental health center, psychiatrist or psychologist. Mental health usage was low even among respondents who felt their problem brought them to the point of a nervous breakdown and among respondents who conceptualized their distress in “emotional” terms. The traditional health care sector (doctors, hospitals) and ministers were used more often by blacks in distress. When the use of professional help only is considered, there appeared to be a large pocket of unmet need in the black community. When the use of informal help is taken into consideration, however, the percentage of respondents who did not receive help was considerably lower. The implications of these findings for professional service delivery are discussed. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Medicine & Public Health | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Public Health/Gesundheitswesen | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychiatry | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Health Psychology | en_US |
dc.title | Seeking professional help for personal problems: Black American's use of health and mental health services | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Public Health | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Work | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Psychiatry | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Room 5134, 48106, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 4075772 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44301/1/10597_2004_Article_BF00754731.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00754731 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Community Mental Health Journal | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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