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Figueroa, Chantal; Zheng, Yi; Adams, Joshua – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2020
This mixed-methods study identified the help-seeking attitudes of Guatemalan college students. A random sample of 248 students across 2 universities responded to a cultural adaptation of the Beliefs About Psychological Services (BAPS; AEgisdóttir & Gerstein, 2009) survey. The directors of both universities and a subsample of participants were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Help Seeking, Mental Health
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Arora, Prerna G.; Metz, Kristina; Carlson, Cindy I. – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2016
This study examined (a) the roles of perceived and personal stigma on attitudes toward professional psychological help seeking and (b) the effects of these constructs across gender in South Asians. Personal stigma and being male was negatively associated with attitudes toward professional psychological help seeking; no difference in the…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Social Bias, Attitude Measures, Mental Health
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Vera, Elizabeth M.; Conner, Wendy – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2007
Latina mothers' perceptions of mental health and factors that promote/restore mental health were explored in this qualitative study. Participants discussed the importance of community, safety, and financial stability in addition to conventional factors that are related to mental health. Implications for working with urban Latinas and their…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Mothers, Mental Health, Hispanic Americans