Little is known about the factors that increase the risk for enacted mental illness stigma (i.e. rejection, devaluation … factors that predict enacted stigma (self-reported) with research that follows eighty American adolescents for 6 months … following a first psychiatric hospitalization. Drawing on social identity theory, and research on stigma …

American women beginning in 2005, we reveal how and why interactions with non-profit and government institutions help to … institutions not only play a critical part in helping women cope with HIV but also renegotiate their self-conceptions as black … women in the wake of receiving another stigmatizing social marker. In short, organizational ties shape women's movement from …

Evidence suggests that people with a severe mental illness still suffer high levels of stigma and discrimination …. However little is known about how people with a severe mental illness manage such stigma. As such, the overall aim of this … study is to document and analyze behavioral and psychological strategies of stigma management and control in a sample of …