314
Views
9
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Barriers to Helpseeking Among New Zealand Prison Inmates

, &
Pages 1-24 | Received 15 Jul 2004, Accepted 25 May 2005, Published online: 22 Oct 2008

References

  • Ajzen , I. 1991 . The theory of planned behavior. Special issue: Theories of cognitive self-regulation . Organisational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , 50 : 179 – 211 .
  • Ajzen , I. and Fishbein , M. 1980 . Understanding attitudes and predicting social behavior , Englewood-Cliffs , NJ : Prentice-Hall .
  • Amato , P. R. and Bradshaw , R. 1985 . An exploratory study of people's reasons for delaying or avoiding helpseeking . Australian Psychologist , 20 : 21 – 31 .
  • Arboleda-Florez , J. 1991 . Ethical issues regarding research on prisoners . International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology , 35 : 1 – 5 .
  • Bayer , J. K. and Peay , M. Y. 1997 . Predicting intentions to seek help from professional mental health services . Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry , 31 : 504 – 513 .
  • Biggar , K. and Neal , D. 1996 . Caring for the suicidal in custody: Development of a multi-disciplinary approach . Omega-Journal of Death & Dying , 33 : 207 – 213 .
  • Blazina , C. and Watkins , C. Edward Jr. 1996 . Masculine gender role conflict: Effects on college men's psychological well-being, chemical substance usage, and attitudes toward helpseeking . Journal of Counseling Psychology , 43 : 461 – 465 .
  • Brinded , P. , Simpson , A. I.F. , Laidlaw , T. M. , Fairley , N. and Malcolm , F. 1999 . The National Study of Psychiatric Morbidity in New Zealand Prisons , Department of Corrections New Zealand .
  • Carlton , P. A. and Deane , F. P. 2000 . Impact of attitudes and suicidal ideation on adolescents' intentions to seek professional psychological help . Journal of Adolescence , 23 : 45 – 55 .
  • Clark , D. and Fawcett , B. 1992 . “ Review of empirical risk factors for evaluation of the suicidal patient ” . In Suicide, guidelines for assessment, management, and treatment , Edited by: Bongar , B. 16 – 48 . New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Cox , J. F. , McCarty , D. W. , Landsberg , G. and Paravati , M. P. 1989 . A model for crisis intervention services within local jails . International Journal of Law and Psychiatry , 11 : 391 – 407 .
  • Cox , J. F. and Morschauser , P. C. 1997 . A solution to the problem of jail suicide . Crisis , 18 : 178 – 184 .
  • Deane , F. P. and Chamberlain , K. 1994 . Treatment fearfulness and distress as predictors of professional psychological helpseeking . British Journal of Guidance and Counselling , 22 : 207 – 217 .
  • Deane , F. P. , Skogstad , P. and Williams , M. W. 1999 . Impact of attitudes, ethnicity and quality of prior therapy on New Zealand male prisoners' intentions to seek professional psychological help . International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling , 21 : 55 – 67 .
  • Deane , F. P. , Spicer , J. and Leathem , J. 1992 . Effects of videotaped preparatory information on expectations, anxiety and psychotherapy outcome . Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , 60 : 980 – 984 .
  • Deane , F. P. and Todd , D. M. 1996 . Attitudes and intentions to seek professional psychological help for personal problems or suicidal thinking . Journal of College Student Psychotherapy , 4 : 45 – 59 .
  • Deane , F. P. , Wilson , C. J. and Ciarrochi , J. in press . Suicidal ideation and help-negation: Not just hopelessness or prior help . Journal of Clinical Psychology. ,
  • Delphin , M. E. and Rollock , D. 1995 . University alienation and African American ethnic identity as predictors of attitudes toward, knowledge about, and likely use of psychological services . Journal of College Student Development , 36 : 337 – 346 .
  • Derogatis , L. R. , Lipman , R. S. , Rickels , K. , Uhlenhuth , R. H. and Covi , L. 1974 . The Hopkins Symptoms Checklist (HSCL): A self-report symptom inventory . Behavioral Science , 19 : 1 – 15 .
  • Dexter , P. and Towl , G. 1995 . An investigation into suicidal behaviors in prison . Issues in Criminological & Legal Psychology , 22 : 45 – 53 .
  • Farina , A. , Fisher , J. D. , Getter , H. and Fischer , E. H. 1978 . Some consequences of changing people's views regarding the nature of mental illness . Journal of Abnormal Psychology , 87 : 272 – 279 .
  • Fischer , E. H. and Farina , A. 1995 . Attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help: A shortened form and considerations for research . Journal of College Student Development , 36 : 368 – 373 .
  • Fischer , E. H. and Turner , J. L. 1970 . Orientations to seeking professional help: Development and research utility of an attitude scale . Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , 35 : 79 – 90 .
  • Fischer , E. H. , Winer , D. and Abramowitz , S. I. “ Seeking professional help for psychological problems ” . In New Directions in Helping , Edited by: Fisher , J. D. Vol. 3 , 165 – 185 . New York : Academic Press .
  • Goldney , R. D. , Wilson , D. , Dal Grande , E. , Fisher , L. J. and McFarlane , A. C. 2000 . Suicidal ideation in a random community sample: Attributable risk due to depression and psychosocial and traumatic events . Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry , 34 : 98 – 106 .
  • Good , G. E. , Dell , D. M. and Mintz , L. B. 1989 . Male role and gender role conflict: Relations to helpseeking in men . Journal of Counseling Psychology , 36 : 295 – 300 .
  • Green , D. E. , Walkey , F. H. , McCormick , I. A. and Taylor , A. J.W. 1988 . Development and evaluation of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist with New Zealand and United States respondents . Australian Journal of Psychology , 40 : 61 – 70 .
  • Halgin , R. P. , Weaver , D. D. , Edell , W. S. and Spencer , P. G. 1987 . Relation of depression and helpseeking history to attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help . Journal of Counseling Psychology , 34 : 177 – 185 .
  • Johnson , M. E. 1988 . Influences of gender and sex role orientation on helpseeking attitudes . Journal of Psychology , 122 : 237 – 241 .
  • Kelly , A. E. and Achter , J. A. 1995 . Self concealment and attitudes toward counselling in university students . Journal of Counselling Psychology , 42 : 40 – 46 .
  • Kim , Min-sun and Hunter , J. E. 1993 . Relationships among attitudes, behavioral intentions, and behavior: A meta-analysis of past research: II . Communication Research , 20 : 331 – 364 .
  • Kuhl , J. , Jarkon-Horlick , L. and Morrissey , R. F. 1997 . Measuring barriers to helpseeking behavior in adolescents . Journal of Youth & Adolescence , 26 : 637 – 650 .
  • Kushner , M. G. and Sher , K. L. 1989 . Fear of psychological treatment and its relation to mental health service avoidance . Professional Psychology: Research and Practice , 20 : 251 – 257 .
  • Kushner , M. G. and Sher , K. J. 1991 . The relation of treatment fearfulness and psychological service utilisation: An overview . Professional Psychology: Research and Practice , 22 : 196 – 203 .
  • Lash , B. 1998 . Census of Prison Inmates 1997 , Ministry of Justice : Wellington .
  • Leibling , A. 1993 . Suicides in young prisoners: A summary . Death Studies , 17 : 381 – 409 .
  • Leong , F. T.L. and Zachar , P. 1999 . Gender and opinions about mental illness as predictors of attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help . British Journal of Guidance and Counselling , 27 : 123 – 132 .
  • Lester , D. 1990 . Overcrowding in prisons and rates of suicide and homicide . Perceptual & Motor Skills , 71 : 274
  • Maori Suicide Review Group . 1996 . Reducing suicide by Maori inmates , Wellington , , New Zealand : A review jointly sponsored by the Department of Corrections and Te Puni Kokiri (Ministry of Maori Development) .
  • McDougall , C. 1996 . “ Working in secure institutions ” . In Working with offenders: Psychological practice in offender rehabilitation , Edited by: Hollin , C. R. 94 – 117 . Chichester , , UK : Wiley .
  • Nadler , A. 1983 . “ Personal characteristics and helpseeking ” . In New directions in helping , Edited by: Nadler , A. , Fisher , J. D. and DePaulo , B. M. 303 – 340 . New York : Academic Press .
  • New Zealand Department of Justice . 1995 . Review of suicide prevention in prisons , Wellington , , New Zealand : Author .
  • Patterson , W. M. , Dohn , H. H. , Bird , J. and Patterson , G. A. 1983 . Evaluation of suicidal patients: The SAD PERSONS scale . Psychosomatics , 24 : 343 – 349 .
  • Pescosolido , B. A. and Boyer , C. A. 1999 . “ How do people come to use mental health services? Current knowledge and changing perspectives ” . In A handbook for the study of mental health: Social contexts, theories, and systems , Edited by: Horwitz , A. V. Scheid , T. New York : Cambridge University Press .
  • Pinto , A. , McCoy , K. J.M. and Whisman , M. A. 1997 . Suicidal ideation in adolescents: Psychometric properties of the suicidal ideation questionnaire in a clinical sample . Psychological Assessment , 9 : 63 – 66 .
  • Price , B. K. and McNeill , B. W. 1992 . Cultural commitment and attitudes towards seeking counselling services in American Indian college students . Professional Psychology Research and Practise , 23 : 376 – 381 .
  • Randall , D. M. and Wolff , J. A. 1994 . The time interval in the intention-behavior relationship: Meta-analysis . British Journal of Social Psychology , 33 : 405 – 418 .
  • Reynolds , W. M. 1988 . Manual for the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire , Odessa , FL : Psychological Assessment Resources .
  • Reynolds , W. M. 1991 . Psychometric characteristics of the adult suicidal ideation questionnaire in college students . Journal of Personality Assessment , 56 : 289 – 307 .
  • Ritter , A. J. and Cole , M. J. 1992 . Men's issues: Gender role conflict and substance abuse . Drug & Alcohol Review , 11 : 163 – 167 .
  • Rudd , M. D. , Joiner , T. E. and Rajab , M. H. 1995 . Help negation after acute suicidal crisis . Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , 63 : 499 – 503 .
  • Steadman , H. J. , Holohean , E. J. and Dvoskin , J. 1991 . Estimating mental health needs and service utilisation among prison inmates . Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law , 19 : 297 – 307 .
  • Sue , D. W. 1994 . Asian-American mental health and helpseeking behavior: Comment on Solber et al. (1994) Tata and Leong (1994) and Lin (1994) . Journal of Counseling Psychology , 41 : 292 – 295 .
  • Surgenor , L. J. 1985 . Attitudes towards seeking professional psychological help . New Zealand Journal of Psychology , 14 : 27 – 33 .
  • Tata , S. P. and Leong , F. T. 1994 . Individualism-collectivism, social-network orientation, and acculturation as predictors of attitudes towards seeking professional psychological help among Chinese Americans . Journal of Counselling Psychology , 41 : 280 – 287 .
  • Tesch , R. 1990 . Qualitative research: Analysis types and software tools , New York : Falmer .
  • Towl , G. 1996 . Homicide and suicide: Assessing risk in prisons . Psychologist , 9 : 398 – 400 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.