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Informal and Formal Help Seeking Among Older Black Male Foster Care Youth and Alumni

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Informal and Formal Help Seeking Among Older Black Male Foster Care Youth and Alumni
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Journal of Child and Family Studies, September 2013
DOI 10.1007/s10826-013-9832-0
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Lionel D. Scott, J. Curtis McMillen, Lonnie R. Snowden

Abstract

Using the behavioral model for vulnerable populations as a framework, this study examined predisposing, enabling, and need factors related to seeking help from formal and informal sources among older Black male foster youth and alumni. Results of logistic regression analyses showed that emotional control, a predisposing variable, was related to help-seeking. Specifically, greater adherence to the norm of emotional control was related to lower likelihood of using informal or formal sources of help. These results support the literature on males, in general, and Black males, in particular, that posits that inhibitions to express emotions are a barrier to their help seeking. Implications for help seeking among vulnerable populations of adolescent and young adult Black males are discussed.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 64 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 15 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 19%
Student > Master 6 9%
Unspecified 4 6%
Researcher 2 3%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 19 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 23 36%
Social Sciences 14 22%
Unspecified 4 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 18 28%
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