coe-staff: Prevention Science Visiting Speaker Series

[Lisa Fortin]

Sent on behalf of Beth Stormshak

Visiting Speaker Series
hosted by the Prevention Science Institute and the Center for Digital Mental Health

Professor Dan Lubman June 7, 2018, Noon – 1:30 Diamond Lake Room, EMU

Drugs, Mental Health, and Young People: Building Effective Early Intervention Approaches
Adolescence is a high-risk time for the development of mental health and substance use disorders, which highlights the importance of effective early intervention approaches. Despite significant investments in growing youth mental health services worldwide, a range of barriers has been identified that influence young peoples’ help-seeking behavior, with research consistently indicating that adolescents have a preference for informal sources of support. However, friends, peers, and family members have frequently been found to demonstrate poor mental health literacy, including a limited ability to recognize specific mental disorders, poor knowledge of how to seek mental health information, and attitudes and beliefs that do not facilitate professional help-seeking. Improving the mental health literacy skills of adolescents is therefore key to ensuring that they know when and how to assist their peers. This presentation will discuss a number of Australian health promotion programs aimed at improving adolescent help-seeking, including a recent trial of MAKINGtheLINK, a school-based intervention that teaches young people how to support their peers to seek professional help.


Beth Stormshak, Ph.D.
Knight Chair and Professor, College of Education
Director, Prevention Science Institute
Department Head, Counseling Psychology and Human Services
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
http://psi.uoregon.edu
phone: 541-346-3538

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