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Let's be mindful of stigma
- Author:
- BAILEY Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.11.02, 2002, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A Royal College of Psychiatrists campaign is looking to encourage the public to be more tolerant of people with mental health problems The campaign is unique among the current anti-stigma campaigns in that it is aimed not only at the public but also at the medical and caring professions. It has been targeting doctors and other health care professionals who are just as likely as any of us to stigmatise people with, for example, drug addiction problems or eating disorders.
Is education of health professionals encouraging stigma towards the mentally ill?
- Authors:
- SADOW Dolly, RYDER Marie, WEBSTER David
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 11(6), December 2002, pp.657-665.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Students in a Boston area nursing school were offered the opportunity to take a battery of tests before and after receiving health education, training and experience. The battery included measures of overall attitudes towards the mentally ill, writing judgements about 'troubled people' in specific situations (a vignette instrument), a social desirability scale, a request for basic demographic information as well as information regarding previous contact with the mentally ill and a pilot measure of 'courtesy' stigma. 'Courtesy' stigma refers to the stigma attached to people associated with the mentally ill, such as mental health professionals. Health education and experience did not significantly affect attitudes towards the mentally ill but subjects overall rated mental health professionals more 'kindly' after being exposed to health education and experience. Students who had had a friend who was mentally ill prior to their school training showed a decrease in stigmatizing attitudes after being exposed to health education and experience whereas other students showed an increase. Other experience with the mentally ill, such as being co-workers on the job, did not have the same effect.
'Like a friend going round:' reducing the stigma attached to mental healthcare in rural communities
- Authors:
- CRAWFORD P., BROWN B.
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 10(4), July 2002, pp.229-238.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article based on focus group discussions conducted with users and mental healthcare workers in a rural setting, suggests that the classic conception of stigma does not readily apply to care in the community. Workers described themselves as actively trying to challenge stigma at an institutional level, as well as being apt to change their own practice to reduce the stigmatising effect of mental healthcare on their clients and make their presence less conspicuous. However, this view included a passive notion of clients. By contrast clients described themselves in much more active terms as being aware of possible sources of stigma and being inclined to challenge negative attitudes themselves.