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JOURNAL OF COLLEGE STUDENT DEVELOPMENT
Volume 47, Issue 4, Pages 419-438Publisher
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1353/csd.2006.0051
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The current study assessed the impact of a brief psychoeducational intervention on participants' attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. The 40-minute intervention focused on dispelling myths and stigmas associated with mental illness, modifying expectations about psychotherapy effectiveness, and providing students with information regarding treatment options. Compared to the control condition, participants in the classroom group showed significant improvements in attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help, as well as in some of their opinions about mental illness, for up to one month following the intervention. These finding suggest that the use of a brief classroom-based mental health education program is a promising method to modify help-seeking attitudes and negative opinions of the mentally ill.
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