A qualitative study exploring the help seeking attitudes and barriers to support for Pasifika young people

The study found that Pasifika young people often deal with mental health issues and life stress on their own due to layers of cultural stigma, and that alcohol and other drugs are sometimes used to cope with emotional stress. The study also shows that Pasifika young people are proactive in changing the rhetoric to normalise help seeking and advocating for culturally appropriate services which respect Pacific ways of 'knowing' and 'being'.