Mental Health Service Utilization of Somali Adolescents: ReligioN, Community, and School as Gateways to Healing

B. Heidi Ellis; Alisa K. Lincoln; Meredith E. Charney; Rebecca Ford-Paz; Molly Benson; Lee Strunin

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Mental Health Service Utilization of Somali Adolescents: ReligioN, Community, and School as Gateways to Healing

B. Heidi Ellis, Alisa K. Lincoln, Meredith E. Charney, Rebecca Ford-Paz, Molly Benson, Lee Strunin

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This mixed-method study examines the utility of the Gateway Provider Model (GPM) in understanding service utilization and pathways to help for Somali refugee adolescents. Somali adolescents living in the Northeastern United States, and their caregivers, were interviewed. Results revealed low rates of use of mental health services. However other sources of help, such as religious and school personnel, were accessed more frequently. The GPM provides a helpful model for understanding refugee youth access to services, and an elaborated model is presented showing how existing pathways to help could be built upon to improve refugee youth access to services.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	789-811
Number of pages	23
Journal	transcultural psychiatry
Volume	47
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461510379933
State	Published - Nov 2010

Keywords

Gateway Provider Model
Somali
mental health
refugee
service utilization

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Psychiatry and Mental health

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