This article is based on a study of young people's help-seeking. Fifty-five
qualitative interviews with young people aged 13–14 are analysed to take
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relevance to young people's help-seeking, they have two key limitations.
First, they ignore problem legitimization. Second, they do not accord a place in
young people's currenthelp-seeking to prior help-seeking
pathways. The view that stage process models represent help-seeking as
individualized and static led to the formulation by the author of an alternative
help-seeking model, in which problem legitimization from micro to macro levels is
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