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Orientations to seeking professional help: development and research utility of an attitude scale.

Edward H. Fischer, +1 more
- 01 Aug 1970 - 
- Vol. 35, Iss: 1, pp 79-90
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This article is published in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.The article was published on 1970-08-01. It has received 955 citations till now.

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Young people’s help-seeking for mental health problems

TL;DR: Wilson et al. as discussed by the authors investigated why young people do not seek help when they are in psychological distress or suicidal; how professional services can be made more accessible and attractive to young people; the factors that inhibit and facilitate help-seeking; and how community gatekeepers can support young people to access services to help with personal and emotional problems.
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Measuring the Self-Stigma Associated With Seeking Psychological Help

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed the Self-Stigma of Seeking Help (SSOSH) scale to measure self-stigma in people's decision not to engage in therapy.
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Perceived public stigma and the willingness to seek counseling: The mediating roles of self-stigma and attitudes toward counseling.

TL;DR: The authors examined the mediating effects of self-stigma associated with seeking counseling and attitudes toward seeking counseling on the link between perceived public stigma and willingness to seek counseling for psychological and interpersonal concerns.
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A new scale of social desirability independent of psychopathology.

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Modern factor analysis

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A new scale for the measurement of interpersonal trust.

TL;DR: This definition clearly departs significandy from Enkson's (1953) broad use of the concept of basic trust, and an expectancy that others can be believed must be an important variable m human learmng in general.
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