Mental illness stigma competes with other stigmas in presenting for treatment. Once in treatment, mental health care acts as a stigma-mitigating "stamp" of risk containment for other societal systems and institutions, signifying that risks posed by clients' problems are being officially contained....
A hidden burden is the social stigma and loss of human rights so commonly associated with mental illness. Rejection by society, families, employers, and even caregivers compounds the isolation, humiliation, and pain suffered by the mentally ill. Loss of earning power and independence also play ...
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of 313 students participated in the study. The individuals were divided into two experimental groups (one which utilized Stigma-Stop and another which did not) and a control group. The results demonstrated that the two interventions were ef f ective in reduc-ing stigma, but the group which fe...
Clinicians were also reluctant to refer patients for HCV treatment if there were mental health concerns or substance use.40 In addition, patient-level factors, such as competing priorities, fear of adverse effects, stigma, and negative interactions with health care professionals, may be associated ...
reasoning biased due to assumptions about mental illness being an illness like any other, the contested nature of schizophrenia, the social construction of diagnoses, alternative explanations for psychosis experiences including the role of trauma, diagnostic over-shadowing, stigma, the technological paradigm...
Currently, one of the difficulties associated with patient recovery from severe mental disorders is stigma. Some authors have even identified its effects as a "second illness." In order to combat these difficulties, various stigma awareness programs have been launched. Furthermore, in recent ye...
Both enacted and internalised stigma were associated with poor mental health in a study of older people with HIV in Germany. Internalised, but not enacted, stigma was associated with adversarial growth—positive changes that people experience in their life while dealing with an adverse event—whic...
Mental health disorders in many countries are regarded as taboo and are often concealed. This study aimed to (a) explore students in secondary school' stigma perceptions of mental disorder; (b) examine whether there is a connection between religiosity and stigma toward people with mental illnesses...
She also explores the perpetuation of social stigma of mental illness by the mass media coverage of the personal lives of young female celebrities such singer Britney Spears and actresses Amanda Bynes and Lindsay Lohan.RothmanLilyEBSCO_bspTime Com...