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Help-Seeking Behaviors Among Filipino Americans: Understanding Enculturation, Depression, And Anxiety, Kristoffer John Almazan Rouse
Help-Seeking Behaviors Among Filipino Americans: Understanding Enculturation, Depression, And Anxiety, Kristoffer John Almazan Rouse
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Filipino Americans have some of the highest levels of psychological distress among all Asian Americans. However, underrepresentation in psychological studies and a unique set of cultural values and norms contribute to the lack of literature on the sources of this distress among Filipino Americans. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine how aspects of cultural assimilation and norms of Filipino culture affect willingness of Filipino Americans to seek mental health services. Several factors, enculturation, anxiety, and depression, among Filipino Americans were examined to predict influence on help-seeking behaviors. A sample of 120 Filipino Americans living in the Pacific …
Outpatient Mental Health Service Utilization For Depression And Anxiety Post-Hurricane, Corey Darnell Taylor
Outpatient Mental Health Service Utilization For Depression And Anxiety Post-Hurricane, Corey Darnell Taylor
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Increased depression and anxiety diagnoses are a result of the lack of use or underuse of outpatient mental health services, specifically among African Americans, youths, and the homeless, and this is a current issue in New Orleans, Louisiana post-Hurricane Katrina. Funding constraints due to the termination of the Louisiana Spirit Program contributed to deficits in terms of outpatient mental health facilities in New Orleans. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the association between the continuum and utilization of outpatient mental health services for African Americans, youth, and the homeless for those diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Andersen’s …