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African American Clergy's Attitude Toward Professional Mental Health Services, Ebony Gaffney
African American Clergy's Attitude Toward Professional Mental Health Services, Ebony Gaffney
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Evaluating the attitude of African American clergy toward parishioners seeking professional mental health services for mental illness has important treatment implications. Religion and spirituality are equally important determinants of mental health and can affect African American clergy's attitudes toward professional care for mental illness. Utilizing the health belief model (HBM), this quantitative study examined the role of theological beliefs, education, and personal experience with mental illness as they correlated with clergy's attitudes toward seeking professional mental illness services. Approximately 98 African American Protestant Clergy in the states of Georgia and South Carolina participated in this study. Data were collected using …
High School Teachers' Perceptions Of Mental Health And Adolescent Depression, Christine Ann Breuer
High School Teachers' Perceptions Of Mental Health And Adolescent Depression, Christine Ann Breuer
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Adolescents have a high rate of untreated mental health issues, specifically related to depression. Current literature does not indicate the impact of teachers' attitudes toward mental health on their decisions to refer students for services. This study provides understanding specifically, how teachers' beliefs about mental health, as well as their age, gender, ethnicity, years of education, and years of teaching, were analyzed to determine the impact each these characteristics had on the decision to refer a student for services. 92 high school teachers participated in this quantitative study by completing a survey measuring their attitudes of mental health, and then …
Clergy Characteristics As Predictors Of Mental Health Literacy, Jodi Vermaas Vermaas
Clergy Characteristics As Predictors Of Mental Health Literacy, Jodi Vermaas Vermaas
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The mental health literacy (MHL) rates of Christian clergy in the United States remains underinvestigated in the current literature. This gap of knowledge is problematic for the large numbers of individuals with mental illness who seek assistance from clergy and may receive inadequate care for their concerns. As theoretically designated by the behavioral models of health care and MHL research, denomination-type, educational variables, and demographic characteristics were investigated as potential predictors of MHL. A sample of 238 Christian clergy from throughout the United States completed the web-based Mental Health Literacy Scale and demographic questionnaire. Results of analysis of variance (ANOVA) …
The Perception Of African American Clergy Regarding Mental Health Services, Tamara White
The Perception Of African American Clergy Regarding Mental Health Services, Tamara White
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The rise in diagnosable mental illness disorders in the United States is a major concern. However, researchers indicate that African Americans are far less likely to seek mental health treatment than Caucasian Americans. This qualitative, phenomenological study addressed a research gap regarding the beliefs, perceptions, stigmas, and practices of African American clergy regarding their promotion of mental health services. Two conceptual frameworks consisting of the sociocultural theory and the social learning theory guided the study. There were two research questions used to guide the exploration of the purposive sampling of 6 African American clergy from major African American denominations across …