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- Title
Teenagers' Attitudes about Seeking Help from Telephone Crisis Services (Hotlines).
- Authors
Gould, Madelyn S.; Greenberg, Ted; Munfakh, Jimmie Lou Harris; Kleinman, Marjorie; Lubell, Keri
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes toward the use of telephone crisis services (hotlines) among 519 adolescents in 9th through 12th grade mandatory health courses in six high schools in New York State. Few adolescents (2.1%) used hotlines and negative attitudes were stronger toward hotlines than they were toward other formal sources of help. The most common reasons for hotline nonuse related to feelings of self-reliance and shame. Objections to hotlines were strongest among students most in need of help by virtue of impaired functioning or feelings of hopelessness. The results underscore needed outreach efforts to youth.
- Subjects
NEW York (State); HOTLINES (Counseling); TEENAGERS; TELEPHONE systems; TELECOMMUNICATION systems; STUDENT attitudes; DESPAIR; HIGH schools; SELF-reliance in adolescence
- Publication
Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, 2006, Vol 36, Issue 6, p601
- ISSN
0363-0234
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/suli.2006.36.6.601