Special section on stigma as a barrier to recovery: Introduction.
Special section on stigma as a barrier to recovery: Introduction.
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关于耻辱作为康复障碍的特别章节:简介。
DOI:
10.1176/appi.ps.52.12.1613
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发表时间:
2001
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通讯作者:
Perlick,DA
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Perlick,DA
Stigma as a Barrier to Recovery sponse to stigmatization can be expected also to have an impact on the person who has the illness. It is important to note that although the papers cite evidence that supports the occurrence of stigmatization of persons with mental illness, the original data collected and presented in all four papers are based on individual judgments of the degree to which persons with mental disorders are devalued or discriminated against in a variety of social roles or contexts—for example, as a teacher of young children or as a prospective spouse. These data should be interpreted as measuring perceptions of or concerns about stigmatization of persons with mental illness rather than the degree to which stigmatization actually occurs in society.On one hand, the fact that the studies measured perceptions rather than actual stigmatization might be viewed as a limitation of the findings. On the other hand, there is ample evidence from research on social cognition that the ways in which people understand or make sense of external reality are important determinants of both their subjective sense of well-being and their adaptive behavior (10, 11). Thus perceptions of stigma may have even greater repercussions for the recovery of persons with mental illness than objective findings related to stigmatization in society, which may or may not apply to individual circumstances. In presenting this series of papers, we hope to increase the focus of clinicians, researchers, health policy administrators, and the American public on the adverse impact of stigma on persons with mental illness and their families. The findings of the studies reported here suggest that clinicians need to be aware that concerns about stigma may reduce adherence to the medications they prescribe or may delay recovery of self-esteem and adaptive social functioning, even under conditions of optimal psychopharmacologic response. However, recognition of the adverse impact of stigma is only a first step toward curing the problem. The next steps involve continuing efforts to educate the public to have a more accurate and less prejudiced view of mental illness and to work with per-
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3.8
作者:
Link, BG;Struening, EL;Phelan, JC
通讯作者:
Phelan, JC