PSY 361 Week 4 Discussion Barriers to Utilizing Mental Health Services Recent
Barriers to Utilizing Mental Health Services. Some of our text reading this week focuses on the utilization of health care services and the different settings in which these services are delivered.
Using the Ashford Library, search the ProQuest database to identify at minimum one peer-reviewed article published within the last five years that focuses on one of the factors listed below in terms of its potential for creating a barrier to the utilization of mental health services:
Gender (sex) as a barrier to the utilization of mental health services
Lifespan (age) as a barrier to the utilization of mental health services
One comorbidity or multiple comorbidities (additional diagnoses either
mental/psychiatric/behavioral/developmental or physical) as a barrier/barriers to the utilization of mental
health services
Severity of mental or physical illness as a barrier to the utilization of mental health services
Sociocultural factors (financial, transportation, cultural) as a barrier/barriers to the utilization of mental
health services