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

Edmund Arthur Coleman-Fountain; Bryony Anne Beresford

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

Edmund Arthur Coleman-Fountain, Bryony Anne Beresford

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The challenge of wicked problems in health and social care: an international text
Subtitle of host publication	Routledge Studies in Health Management
Editors	Will Thomas, Anneli Hujala , Sanna Laulainen, Robert McMurray
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315102597
ISBN (Print)	9781138103627
Publication status	Published - 3 Oct 2018

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Coleman-Fountain, E. A., & Beresford, B. A. (2018). Improving Young People’s Mental Health? Understanding Ambivalence to Seeking Support Among Young Adults With Asperger Syndrome. In W. Thomas, A. H., S. Laulainen, & R. McMurray (Eds.), The challenge of wicked problems in health and social care: an international text: Routledge Studies in Health Management Routledge.

Coleman-Fountain, Edmund Arthur ; Beresford, Bryony Anne. / Improving Young People’s Mental Health? Understanding Ambivalence to Seeking Support Among Young Adults With Asperger Syndrome. The challenge of wicked problems in health and social care: an international text: Routledge Studies in Health Management. editor / Will Thomas ; Anneli Hujala ; Sanna Laulainen ; Robert McMurray. Routledge, 2018.

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The challenge of wicked problems in health and social care: an international text: Routledge Studies in Health Management. ed. / Will Thomas; Anneli Hujala; Sanna Laulainen; Robert McMurray. Routledge, 2018.

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