Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: A cross-sectional qualitative descriptive design was used to examine the links among expectations about, experiences with, and intentions toward mental health services. Individual face-to-face interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 32 African American youth/mothers dyads. Content analysis revealed that positive expectations were linked to positive experiences and intentions, that negative expectations were not consistently linked to negative experiences or intentions, nor were ambivalent expectations linked to ambivalent experiences or intentions. Youth were concerned about privacy breeches and mothers about the harmfulness of psychotropic medication. Addressing these concerns may promote African Americans’ engagement in mental health services.
DOI: 10.17615/0jpj-j586
Institutions: Juvenile Protective Association, University of Illinois Chicago, National Institutes of Health, Government of the United States of America, University at Albany, State University of New York, Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3158428848