New publication from our lab!

The paper is published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology and entitled, Short-Term Changes in Internalizing Symptoms and Help-Seeking Attitudes During the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Although psychotherapy can help address people’s mental health concerns–especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many US Americans have experienced heightened stress, many people with unmet mental health needs do not seek professional help. It is important to understand their attitudinal barriers to professional help-seeking. Research and clinical evidence suggest that people with severe distress are more likely to seek therapy than those with mild symptoms, higher levels of initial and increasing levels of distress amid COVID-19 pandemic may be linked to increasingly favorable attitudes toward professional help-seeking. We found that American adults’ distress decreased slightly over a three-week period in early months of the pandemic, and their attitudes toward mental health services did not change on average. We also found that people more distressed at the start of the survey study were more open to seeking professional psychological help and perceived less value in mental health services.

Check out the paper HERE!