Barriers to Providing Effective Mental Health Services to Asian Americans

By Frederick T. L. Leong, A. Lau. Mental Health Services Research, 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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A comparison of mental health literacy, attitudes, and help-seeking intentions among domestic and international tertiary students (2019, background): “Less positive help-seeking attitudes reported by the international students may be a result of these students being more likely to use avoidance and other passive coping strategies to deal with their distress (Khawaja & Dempsey, 2008; Leong & Lau, 2001).”
A test of Cramer's (1999) help-seeking model and acculturation effects with Asian and Asian American college students (2005, background): “Researchers have been particularly interested in developing ways to increase the use of counseling services among Asian Americans (Leong & Lau, 2001).”
Help-Seeking Tendencies in Asian Americans With Suicidal Ideation and Attempts (2011, background): “This finding is consistent with literature showing that as Asian Americans become more versed in English and familiar with mental health, they are more likely to recognize a men- tal health need and seek help (Leong & Lau, 2001; Meyer, Zane, Cho, & Takeuchi, 2009).”
Use of mental health-related services among immigrant and US-born Asian Americans: results from the National Latino and Asian American Study. (2007, background): “Asian immigrants may have unique patterns of help-seeking and may receive a different quality of care from mental health service providers than do their US-born counterparts.(1,2) Without adequate data on the differences between Asian immigrants and US-born Asian Americans, it is difficult to plan f”
Stress and quality of life in international and domestic university students: cultural differences in the use of religious coping (2012, background): “For example, the broad categorisation Asian was applied even though one might expect to find differences between Asian nationalities (Leong & Lau, 2001).”
Racial and Ethnic Disparities (2010, positive): “Particularly in Asian cultures, in which endurance and internalization of emotional troubles is considered a woman’s virtue, outward help-seeking for personal emotion is discouraged ( Leong and Lau 2001 ).”