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Differing mental health attitudes between parents and children can contribute to the mental health treatment gap, child self-stigma and a negative self-image, and be detrimental to the parent-child relationship. The purpose of this study was thus to investigate the mental health attitudes of daughters and mothers (aged 20-58) to determine areas of dissent and the factors that contribute to mental health attitudes, with the overall goal of mitigating these problems in the future. Five female-identifying students from Colorado College and their mothers from the same demographic group were interviewed. The findings indicate that mothers and daughters have similar MH attitudes, which were formed by the state of mental health care, the level of mental health knowledge and awareness, and of perceived social support. Future research with more participants is needed in order to generalize the findings of this research to the rest of the population.

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