Improving Young People’s Mental Health? Understanding Ambivalence to Seeking Support Among Young Adults With Asperger Syndrome

Coleman-Fountain, Edmund and Beresford, Bryony (2018) Improving Young People’s Mental Health? Understanding Ambivalence to Seeking Support Among Young Adults With Asperger Syndrome. In: The Challenge of Wicked Problems in Health and Social Care. Routledge Studies in Health Management . Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781138103627

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Abstract

Mental health is a ‘wicked problem’ that requires understanding the views and experiences of different social groups. Young people concerned about the stigma of being a ‘mental health service user’ are one such group. This chapter provides another perspective by exploring how young people with Asperger syndrome make sense of mental distress and how, in turn, this may influence help-seeking behaviors. It examines how mental distress is framed as an integral and enduring part of Asperger syndrome. It also explores how a rhetoric of self-reliance is linked to an ambivalence to using mental health services which, in turn, is affected by poor experiences of support at a young age.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Autism, Mental Health, Young Adults, Health, Social Care, Social Policy
Subjects:	C800 Psychology L500 Social Work
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Paul Burns
Date Deposited:	20 Aug 2018 10:59
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2019 14:49
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/35425

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