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      Symptoms of Mental Health Problems: Children’s and Adolescents’ Understandings and Implications for Gender Differences in Help Seeking

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          Abstract

          Amidst concerns that young people’s mental health is deteriorating, it is important to explore their understandings of symptoms of mental health problems and beliefs around help seeking. Drawing on focus group data from Scottish school pupils, we demonstrate how they understood symptoms of mental health problems and how their characterisations of these symptoms as ‘rare’ and ‘weird’ informed participants’ perceptions that peers, teachers and parents would respond to disclosure in stigmatising ways. Consequently, participants suggested that they would delay or avoid disclosing symptoms of mental health problems. We highlight subtle gender and age differences and outline implications for policy and practice.

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          Journal
          Child Soc
          Child Soc
          chso
          Children & Society
          Blackwell Publishing Ltd (Oxford, UK )
          0951-0605
          1099-0860
          May 2013
          : 27
          : 3
          : 161-173
          Affiliations
          MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 8RZ, UK
          Author notes
          *Correspondence to: Dr Alice MacLean, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8RZ, UK. Tel.: +0141 357 3949; Fax: +0141 337 2389. E-mail: alice@ 123456sphsu.mrc.ac.uk
          Article
          10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00406.x
          4540163
          26300586
          2ddb6db1-87cb-4acb-b496-058ce7e01518
          © 2012 The Author(s). Children & Society © 2012 National Children’s Bureau and Blackwell Publishing Limited

          Re-use of this article is permitted in accordance with the Creative Commons Deed, Attribution 2.5, which does not permit commercial exploitation.

          History
          : 28 September 2011
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          adolescence,childhood,health and well-being,mental health,help seeking

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