Abstract
Despite the availability of efficacious treatments, most Americans afflicted with anxiety disorders will never seek treatment. Patients that do seek help report a lack of knowledge about anxiety disorders and treatment as primary reasons they failed to seek treatment sooner. Anxiety disorders frequently onset in late adolescent/early adulthood. However, there is little information on what young adults know about anxiety disorders. The current study sought to examine college students' recommendations for anxiety disorders. College students (N = 284) were presented with vignettes of individuals experiencing an anxiety disorder or depression and asked to suggest recommendations for these individuals. Rates of help-seeking recommendations varied between anxiety disorders, with the highest rates observed for panic disorder and the lowest rates for generalized anxiety disorder and social phobia. Findings suggest that recommendations to seek professional help for anxiety disorders are not universal even when the...
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