Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Dec 27;17(1):191. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17010191.
This study aimed to get insight into adolescents' views on help-seeking for emotional and behavioral problems. Fourteen focus groups were conducted. Two vignettes, depicting one healthy adolescent with few issues and one adolescent with severe psychosocial problems, were used to structure the focus groups. The focus groups were framed within a youth help-seeking model. Adolescents (mean age of 15.0 years) generally reported seeking help from friends or the internet for mild issues and from a person they trust like a parent or school mentor, for more severe problems. Adolescents correctly recognized the issues in vignette one as surmountable and the problems in vignette two as severe. A bond of trust with a help source was regarded as the main facilitator for the decision to seek help. Adolescents reported a preference for help sources who clearly displayed their expertise for the issue at hand and for informal help-sources, particularly friends.
本研究旨在深入了解青少年对情绪和行为问题寻求帮助的看法。为此开展了 14 个焦点小组。两个描述一个有少量问题的健康青少年和一个有严重心理社会问题的青少年的情景片段被用来组织焦点小组。焦点小组是在青少年寻求帮助模型的框架内进行的。青少年(平均年龄为 15.0 岁)通常报告说,对于轻度问题,他们会向朋友或互联网寻求帮助,对于更严重的问题,则会向他们信任的人,如父母或学校导师寻求帮助。青少年正确地认识到情景片段一中的问题是可以克服的,而情景片段二中的问题是严重的。与帮助来源建立信任关系被认为是决定寻求帮助的主要促进因素。青少年报告说,他们更倾向于寻求那些对当前问题表现出专业知识的帮助来源,以及那些非正式的帮助来源,特别是朋友。