Adolescents’ views of helping professionals: A review of the literature

This paper reviews 54 papers exploring adolescents’ own views of their interactions with doctors, mental health workers and other ‘helping professionals’. Twelve global themes emerge repeatedly in the qualitative literature, where adolescents are asked to talk about their preferences or their experi...

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Published inJournal of adolescence (London, England.) Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 639 - 653
Main Authors Freake, Helen, Barley, Val, Kent, Gerry
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.08.2007
Elsevier
Elsevier Science
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects
Adolescent
Adolescent Attitudes
Adolescents
Attitude
Biological and medical sciences
Developmental psychology
Experience
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Helping Behavior
Helping Relationship
Helping relationships in adolescence
Helpseeking
Humans
Literature reviews
Male
Mental Health Workers
Miscellaneous
Patient Acceptance of Health Care - psychology
Pediatrics
Perceptions
Physicians
Professional-Patient Relations
Psychology and medicine
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Qualitative Methods
Qualitative research
Qualitative research with young people
Quality of care
Services for adolescents
Social Services
Teenagers
Young Adults
Young people's experiences
Qualitative research with young people
Young people's experiences
Helping relationships in adolescence
Services for adolescents
Human
Health staff
Health
Adolescent
Mental health
Review
Therapeutic relation
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Summary:This paper reviews 54 papers exploring adolescents’ own views of their interactions with doctors, mental health workers and other ‘helping professionals’. Twelve global themes emerge repeatedly in the qualitative literature, where adolescents are asked to talk about their preferences or their experiences of receiving help from such professionals. The twelve themes are reported and illustrated with results of related quantitative studies, and implications of these themes for professionals offering services to this age group are considered. Methodological limitations of the literature are discussed, along with suggestions for future research.
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ISSN:0140-1971
1095-9254
DOI:10.1016/j.adolescence.2006.06.001