@article{ref1,
title="Adolescents' disclosure of mental illness to parents: preferences and barriers",
journal="Health communication",
year="2022",
author="Rasmussen, Eric E. and Shannon, Kay Leigh and Pitchford, Bethany",
volume="37",
number="3",
pages="346-355",
abstract="Adolescents with a diagnosable mental health disorder must often first disclose their mental health problems to a parent in order to obtain professional mental health treatment. The decision to disclose private, personal health information is the result of successful progression through disclosure decision-making processes fraught with barriers that can discourage disclosure; therefore, the current study explored adolescents' perceptions of factors that facilitate or discourage disclosure of mental health information to parents. Thematic analysis of a series of focus groups with adolescents with and without a mental health disorder discovered several themes that describe factors adolescents consider in the disclosure decision-making process. Several identified themes are consistent with past research related to health-related disclosure decisions, but some themes suggest that the mental health disclosure decision-making processes of adolescents may be different than the decision-making processes of adults in other health contexts. <br><br>RESULTS of the study have implications for interventions associated with adolescents' and parents' mental health literacy, mental health stigma and communication about mental health issues.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1041-0236",
doi="10.1080/10410236.2020.1839201",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1839201"
}