3 - STIGMA

Cards (7)

  • Crocker, Major & Steele (1998). Social stigma
    • “Stigmatised individuals possess (or are believed to posess) some attribute, or characteristic, that conveys a social identity that is devalued in a particular social context.” p. 505
  • Corrigan, Larson, & Kuwabara (2010). Social psychology of the stigma of mental illness
    • Public stigma = the negative attitudes and behaviours of the general population towards SMI
    • Self-stigma = the negative consequences of internalising this stigma
  • Lewis & Appleby (1988). Personality disorder: the patients psychiatrists dislike
    • Suicide attempts and behaviours in PD regarded by 240 psychiatrists as manipulative and voluntary
    • Suggest PD as a term should be abandoned
  • Kendell (2002). The distinction between personality disorder and mental illness.
    • Most British psychiatrists did not regard PD as illness
    • “Commonplace” for diagnosis of PD to be used to justify a decision not to admit someone to psychiatric wards
  • Newton-Howes, Weaver, & Tyrer (2008). Attitude of staff towards patients with PD in CMHT
    • PD diagnostic label associated with clinician attitude that patients will be harder to manage
    • One explanation is that the label of PD is stigmatizing
  • Day et al. (2018). Clinician attitudes towards BPD a 15-year comparison

    Attitudes improving
  • Stiles et al. (2023). Experiences of stigma and discrimination in BPD
    • Stigma and discrimination results in poor identification and delayed care
    • Discovered
    • Resistance from clinicians
    • Othering
    • Negative impact on self-image/esteem
    • Hopelessness surrounding perceived permeance of BPD