Stan Kutcher

Dados Biográficos

ID6053285
NOMEStan Kutcher
PRENOMESStan
SOBRENOMEKutcher
ASSINATURAKUTCHER S
AFILIAÇÕESDalhousie University
ORCID0000-0002-9646-3063
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR11
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2005
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2019
ÍNDICE H1

  • Creating Evidence-Based Youth Mental Health Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessStanley Kutcher, Stan Kutcher et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2019

    Addressing depression in young people is a health-care policy need in sub-Saharan Africa. There exists poor mental health literacy, high levels of stigma, and weak capacity at the community level to address this health-care need. These challenges are significant barriers to accessing mental health care for depression, soon to be the largest single contributor to the global burden of disease. We here describe an innovative approach that addresses …

  • You Only Die Twice

    Jean-Paul R Soucy, Jean‐Paul Soucy et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2019Referências: 1

    AffiliationsJean-Paul R. Soucy, Stephen A. Kutcher, and Emily MacLean are with the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Maida J. Sewitch is with the Department of Medicine, McGill University, and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec

  • Evaluating the benefits of a youth mental health curriculum for students in Nicaragua

    Open AccessArun Ravindran, Andrés Herrera et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2018

    This pilot investigation demonstrates the benefits of the MHC in a low-and-middle-income youth population. The findings replicate results found in Canadian student populations and support its cross-cultural applicability

  • Mental Health Literacy

    Open AccessStan Kutcher, Yifeng Wei et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Psychiatry2016

  • Electronic interventions for depression in adolescents

    Open AccessVanessa Bruce, Stan KutcherARTICLESouth African Journal of Psychology2016Referências: 49

    Depressive disorders frequently onset in adolescence, and although effective treatments for these disorders are known, many youth have difficulty accessing care when needed. Electronic interventions and mobile applications have been posited as a possible solution for increasing access to affordable care. This narrative review explores the state of the evidence for their effectiveness, safety, and acceptability with teenagers. Although many electr…

  • Mental health literacy measures evaluating knowledge, attitudes and help-seeking

    Open AccessYifeng Wei, Patrick J Mcgrath et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychiatry2015

    BACKGROUND: Mental health literacy has received increasing attention as a useful strategy to promote early identification of mental disorders, reduce stigma and enhance help-seeking behaviors. However, despite the abundance of research on mental health literacy interventions, there is the absence of evaluations of current available mental health literacy measures and related psychometrics. We conducted a scoping review to bridge the gap. METHODS:…

  • Improving Malawian teachers' mental health knowledge and attitudes

    Open AccessStan Kutcher, Heather Gilberds et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2015

    These positive results suggest that an approach that integrates mental health literacy into the existing school curriculum may be an effective, significant and sustainable method of enhancing mental health literacy for educators in Malawi. If these results are further found to be sustained over time, and demonstrated to be effective when extended to students, then this model may be a useful and widely applicable method for improving mental health…

  • Contribution to the validation of the Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (Kads-6) in a Portuguese population

    Open AccessSónia Quintão, David et al.ARTICLEPsicologia Reflexão e Crítica2015Citada por: 1

    The KADS-6 is a self-report assessment instrument known for its ease application in assessing depression in young people. This study aimed to contribute to the validation of the Portuguese version of this tool and analyze its psychometric characteristics in comparison with other self-report instruments for depression in adolescents, in Portugal. Two samples were collected, a non-clinical group of in school youth (n=773; 52.4% male) and a clinical…

  • The effectiveness of school mental health literacy programs to address knowledge, attitudes and help seeking among youth

    Open AccessYifeng Wei, Jill A Hayden et al.ARTICLEEarly Intervention in Psychiatry2013

  • Post-suicide Intervention Programs

    Open AccessMagdalena Szumilas, Stan KutcherARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2011

  • An integrated program to train local health care providers to meet post-disaster mental health needs

    Open AccessStan Kutcher, Sonia Chehil et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2005

    This paper describes a post-disaster mental health training program developed by the International Section of the Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) and delivered in Grenada after Hurricane Ivan struck the country in September 2004. This train-the-trainer program used an integrated community health model to help local health care providers develop the necessary skills for the identification and evidenced-based trea…