Help Seeking Processes

Structural inequities disproportionately impact mental health and treatment seeking among minoritized populations. These inequities impact racial and ethnic minority groups at systems, community, and individual levels. Within this context, our research focuses on individual-level factors that are associated with mental health treatment seeking process.

Selected Publications

Nelson, T., Ernst, S. C., Cirado, C., Fisse, J. L., & Moreno, O. (2021). Psychological distress and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological services in a sample of Black women: The role of past mental health treatment. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. https://doi.1007/s40615-021-00983-z

Nelson, T., Shahid, N. N., & Cardemil, E. V. (2020). Do I really need to go see somebody? Black women’s perceptions of help-seeking for depression. Journal of Black Psychology, 46(4), 263-286. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095798420931644

Moreno, O., Nelson, T., & Cardemil, E. V. (2017). Religiosity and attitudes towards professional mental health services: Analyzing religious coping as a mediator among Mexican origin Latinas/os in the southwest United States. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 20(7), 626-637. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2017.1372735

Cardemil, E. V., Nelson, T., & Keefe, K. (2015). Racial and ethnic disparities in depression treatment. Current Opinion in Psychology, 4, 37-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.01.021