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1. Why do you think people would, "chose to withstand brief psychological discomfort rather than engage mental health providers"?

2. Describe cues and give at least 1 example.

3. How do you think stigma may effect someone who needs leave from work due to mental illness? What are the potential long term outcomes of this?

4. List and briefly describe the six conundrums that need to be addressed in the research.

Sakai, C., Mackie, T. I., Shetgiri, R., Franzen, S., Partap, A., Flores, G., & Leslie, L. K. (2014). Mental health beliefs and barriers to accessing mental health services in youth aging out of foster care.Academic pediatrics,14(6), 565-573.

5. One young person who had aged out of foster care said, ""Yeah, the whole time you arein foster care, you're practically forced to. You get in afight, they send you to a mental hospital. You do something,and they put you on Zoloft." If we assume this is true, how might that impact the person's perception of treatment for mental illness?