• Many mental health disorders emerge in mid to late adolescence and early adulthood.
• The stress of university life may exacerbate psychopathology or lead to the development of problems for the first time.
• Despite early disorder onset, effective treatment is typically not initiated until years later, regardless of universities typically providing integrated support services.
• Recent attention has been paid to the study of barriers to help-seeking amongst college students, particularly those at high risk due to profiles such as having mental disorders or STBs, due to their low help seeking.
• This study seeks to replicate and expand the findings of a previous study, by extending the vulnerable group to include all students with mental disorders, as well as examining group difference in how the barriers are rated in terms of the presence of absence of STBs, in addition to gender differences initially documented by the original study.

The present study examines intentions to seek help and perceived barriers to help-seeking in a sample of first year undergraduate college students with a lifetime history of a mental disorder. Specific research questions include:

• Are there gender differences in perceived need/readiness to change, intentions to seek help in the event of a difficulty arising, and barriers to seeking treatment amongst those who do not intend to seek help?
• Does presence vs. absence of STBs relate to differences in perceived need/readiness to change, intentions to seek help in the event of a difficulty arising, and barriers to seeking treatment amongst those who do not intend to seek help?