RISP: STIGMA AND MENTAL ILLNESS

描述(申请人摘要)：个人的人生目标和机会 患有严重精神疾病的人明显受到社会耻辱和 歧视。因此，更好地解释形式和结构的研究 耻辱和减少其影响的策略将显著改善 精神健康服务和结果。社会心理学家有超过30分的 一年的理论和方法史，考察刻板印象、偏见和 社会边缘群体中的歧视。此RISP的目的是在 心理疾病污名研究的目标与社会心理学研究 缺乏生态有效性。因此，我们的工作将以基本原则为基础。 将增强我们污名的外部有效性的实地调查 学习。已为RISP初级和高级人员制定了发展计划 提高教师在这一领域的研究能力。教师发展 而RISP飞行员基于四个指导维度：(1)实验严谨性 与现实世界的相关性；(2)个人社会认知过程与 过程与权力亚群的相互作用：(3)柱头的检查 现象与测试污名策略；以及(4)检查原因 污名(态度)和歧视(行为)之间的关系。五 已经起草了试点，将作为发展的基础 努力和未来的R01提案：(1)视觉演示与口头演示 精神疾病污名；(2)对精神疾病的职业态度和 强制性治疗；(3)耻辱在不同级别的 法律制度；(4)通过接触改变耻辱和歧视；和(5) 改变污名的媒体策略。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract): The life goals and opportunities of persons with serious mental illness are significantly impeded by societal stigma and discrimination. Hence, research that better explains the form and structure of stigma, and strategies that diminish its impact, will significantly improve mental health services and outcomes. Social psychologists have more than a 30 year history of theory and methods that examine stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination in social outgroups. The purpose of this RISP is to bridge the goals of research on mental illness stigma with social psychological research lacks ecological validity. Hence, our work will be grounded in basic principles of field research that will enhance the external validity of our stigma studies. A development plan has been generated for RISP junior and senior faculty to enhance their research abilities in this area. Faculty development and RISP pilots are based on four guiding dimensions: (1) experimental rigor versus real-world relevance; (2) individual social cognitive processes versus interaction of processes with power subgroups: (3) examination of stigma phenomenon versus testing stigma strategies; and (4) examining the causal relationship between stigma (attitudes) and discrimination (behavior). Five pilots have been drafted which will serve as a foundation for development efforts and future R01 proposals: (1) Visual versus verbal presentations of mental illness stigma; (2) Professional attitudes about mental illness and mandatory treatment; (3) The impact of stigma across various levels of the legal system; (4) Changing stigma and discrimination through contact; and (5) Media strategies for stigma change.