Using Personification and Agency Reorientation to Reduce Mental-Health Clinicians' Stigmatizing Attitudes Toward Patients.
Using Personification and Agency Reorientation to Reduce Mental-Health Clinicians' Stigmatizing Attitudes Toward Patients.
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利用拟人化和代理重新定位来减少心理健康临床医生对患者的侮辱态度。
DOI：
10.1037/sah0000020
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
Ahn,Woo-Kyoung
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作者：
Lebowitz,MatthewS;Ahn,Woo-Kyoung
患有精神障碍的人会被强烈地污蔑。在心理健康专业人员中，污名化的态度往往表现为渴望与精神障碍患者保持社会距离。目前方兴未艾的精神病理学的生物医学概念化可能会导致与偏见有关的非人性化，从而加剧这一问题。考虑到这种事件的临床意义，本研究测试了一种可能的缓解策略。在一项对216名美国心理健康临床医生进行的在线研究中，测试了两种减轻医疗保健中非人性化的策略-人格化，强调精神障碍患者的个人特征，而不是将他们描述为大脑故障；机构重新定位，强调人们做出选择和决定的能力。在临床医生中，这种方法大大减少了对社交距离的渴望，因为抑郁症患者的症状可以从生物学上解释。这些发现可能为减少临床实践中的耻辱提供了一条途径。
People with mental disorders are strongly stigmatized. Among mental health professionals, stigmatizing attitudes often manifest as desire for social distance from people with mental disorders. Currently ascendant biomedical conceptualizations of psychopathology could exacerbate this problem by engendering dehumanization, which is linked to prejudice. Given the clinical implications of such an occurrence, the present research tested a possible mitigation strategy. In an online study of 216 US mental health clinicians, 2 strategies for mitigating dehumanization in health care were tested—personification, highlighting personal traits of people with mental disorders rather than presenting them as malfunctioning brains, and agency reorientation, underscoring people’s ability to make choices and decisions. This approach yielded significantly less desire for social distance, among clinicians, from a person with depression whose symptoms were explained biologically. These findings may suggest an avenue for decreasing stigma in clinical practice.