Mental health challenges (including mood, anxiety, and behavioral disorders) affect up to one-fifth of adolescents ages 13–18. Although these disorders are associated with impairments in psychological, academic, social, and family domains, they are often left untreated. Schools have great potential to address this service-underutilization gap by identifying those students at risk through mental health screening tools and by providing treatment at no cost for students. However, at the secondary level, school personnel partly expect high school students to initiate support for themselves. The present study advances research by exploring the variables related to adolescent mental health help-seeking intentions within the school setting. Specifically, this study assesses the utility of the theory of planned behavior in an effort to identify what factors relate to high school students' willingness to seek help at school. A secondary aim of this study was to examine why adolescent boys are consistently less willing to seek help for mental health problems than adolescent girls. Results of this study highlight important factors to target when developing interventions to increase help-seeking intent in high school students.

心理健康挑战（包括情绪，焦虑和行为障碍）最多影响13-18岁青少年的五分之一。尽管这些疾病与心理，学术，社交和家庭领域的障碍有关，但通常不予治疗。通过通过心理健康筛查工具确定面临风险的学生并免费为学生提供治疗，学校具有解决服务利用不足差距的巨大潜力。但是，在中学阶段，学校工作人员部分希望高中生为自己提供支持。本研究通过探索与学校环境中青少年心理健康求助意向有关的变量来推进研究。具体来说，这项研究评估了计划行为理论的效用，旨在确定哪些因素与高中学生在学校寻求帮助的意愿有关。这项研究的第二个目的是研究为什么青春期男孩比青春期女孩始终不愿为精神健康问题寻求帮助。这项研究的结果突出了在制定干预措施以增加高中学生寻求帮助的意图时要针对的重要因素。