Findings from the clinical psychology literature indicate that many who experience depression do not seek treatment when needed. This may be due to help-seeking models and interventions failing to account for the behavioral characteristics of depression that affect decision making (e.g., altered sensitivity to punishment and reward). Behavioral economics can provide a framework for studying help-seeking among individuals with depression that explicitly considers such characteristics. In particular, the authors propose that depression influences help-seeking by altering sensitivity to treatment-related gains and losses and to the delays, effort, probabilities, and social distance associated with those gains and losses. Additional biases in decision making (e.g., sunk-cost bias, default bias) are also proposed to be relevant to help-seeking decisions among individuals with depression. Strengths, limitations, and future directions for research using this theoretical framework are discussed. Taken together, a behavioral economic model of help-seeking for depression could assist in identifying those who are at greatest risk of going untreated and in creating more effective help-seeking interventions.
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