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 …

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 …

We incorporate anthropological insights into a stigma framework to elucidate the role of culture in threat perception … and stigma among Chinese groups. Prior work suggests that genetic contamination that jeopardizes the extension of one … to 2003 assessed cultural differences in mental illness stigma and perceptions of threat in 56 Chinese-Americans and 589 …

Theoretical models of public stigma toward mental illness have focused on factors that perpetuate stigma toward the … work used the Stereotype Content Model (Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu, 2002) to examine how one facet of public stigma … content that underlies public stigma toward individual mental illnesses is not the same for all disorders. Harnessing …

to distinguish superiority among discrete strategies for psychotherapeutic change. Research on stigma change may find … itself at this point. Advocates have developed and implemented multiple approaches to changing stigma; some of these might be … shown to have more beneficial impact than others. The mental health community has been especially active in tackling stigma …

subjective experience of structural stigma imposed by the increasing medicalization of public support for the poor through a … check improves within their kin and neighborhood-based networks, counterbalancing the felt stigma of being identified by …