Lessons learned from unintended consequences about erasing the stigma of mental illness
Lessons learned from unintended consequences about erasing the stigma of mental illness
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DOI:
10.1002/wps.20295
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发表时间:
2016-02-01
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影响因子:
73.3
通讯作者:
Corrigan, Patrick W.
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作者:
Corrigan, Patrick W.
Advocates and scientists have partnered to develop and evaluate programs meant to erase the egregious effects of the different forms of stigma. Enough evidence has been collected to yield lessons about approaches to stigma change. Some of the most insightful of these lessons emerge from unintended consequences of good intentioned approaches, and are the focus of this paper. They include the limited benefits of education especially when compared to contact, beating stigma is more than changing words, beware pity as a message, understand the competing agendas of stigma change, replace ideas of normalcy with solidarity, and avoid framing self-stigma as the problem of people with mental illness and not of society. The paper ends with consideration of the back seat role that psychiatrists and other mental health providers should have in stigma change.