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Marilyn F. Downs
Researcher at Tufts University
Publications - 6
Citations - 1304
Marilyn F. Downs is an academic researcher from Tufts University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Stigma (botany). The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 6 publications receiving 1106 citations.
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Stigma and help seeking for mental health among college students
TL;DR: One of the first empirical studies of the association of help-seeking behavior with both perceived public stigma and people’s own stigmatizing attitudes (personal stigma) is conducted, finding that perceived stigma was considerably higher than personal stigma.
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Help Seeking and Treatment Use Among Suicidal College Students
TL;DR: Help seeking among suicidal students is associated with a range of personal and social network factors, and campus strategies to enhance help seeking should be tailored to address identified facilitators and barriers to treatment use among target populations.
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Social contagion of mental health: evidence from college roommates
TL;DR: The results suggest that mental health contagion is lower, or at least more context specific, than implied by the recent studies in the medical literature.
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Effects of contact with treatment users on mental illness stigma: Evidence from university roommate assignments
TL;DR: The findings indicate that naturalistic contact alone does not necessarily yield a reduction in mental illness stigma, and highlights the importance of isolating the specific components, beyond contact per se, that are necessary to reduce stigma in contact-based interventions.
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Changing the Meaning of Help: Clinical Approaches to Reducing Stigma among Suicidal Young Adults:
TL;DR: Cognitive and relational-cultural theories are drawn on to discuss psychological and interpersonal consequences of mental illness stigma for depressed and suicidal young adults.