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College Students’ Barriers to Seeking Professional Help Related to Mental Health Issue

Authors
Inri Puspasary Bara Padang1, *, Anita Novianty1
1Faculty of Psychology, Krida Wacana Christian University, Jakarta 11470, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: inripuspasarybp@gmail.com
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Inri Puspasary Bara Padang
Available Online 21 April 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220404.288How to use a DOI?
Keywords
barriers; college students; mental health; professional help
Abstract

The prevalence of mental health problems among college students is increasing, yet the access of professional services and the tendency to seek professional help related to mental health issue still low. This study aims to explore the barriers to seeking mental health counseling in college students. Participants were 240 college students aged 18-30 years (66 men, 174 women) using the accidental sampling technique. Barriers to Seeking Mental Health Counseling Scale (BMHC), was translated into Bahasa Indonesia and used as instrument in this study to collect data via online platform. Descriptive statistics and comparison of means tests were applied to analyze data. The results indicated college students moderately experienced barriers to seeking mental health counseling in all six dimensions of BMHC. Another finding showed college students from non-health major of studies, never had counseling experience previously, and mental health counseling service was not available on campus have higher barriers in each dimension. By knowing the description of the barriers experienced by college students, it is expected for related stakeholders to provide proper mental health services by professionals that could be accessed by college students, which also need to consider several characteristics background of students who experienced certain barriers to seeking mental health counseling.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
21 April 2022
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.220404.288
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220404.288How to use a DOI?
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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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