One in ten children and adolescents suffer with mental health difficulties at any given time,
yet less than one third seek treatment. Untreated mental illness predisposes to longstanding …

▪ Abstract The stereoty** literature within psychology has grown considerably over the
past decade. In large part, this growth can be attributed to progress in understanding the …

Many people who would benefit from mental health services opt not to pursue them or fail to
fully participate once they have begun. One of the reasons for this disconnect is stigma; …

17 mental illness may be less severe than in Western cultures. Fabrega (26) suggests that
the lack of differentiation between psychiatric and non-psychiatric illness in the three great …

Published narratives by persons with serious mental illness eloquently describe the harmful
effects of stigma on self-esteem and self-efficacy. However, a more careful review of the …

Persons with mental illness frequently encounter public stigma and may suffer from self-
stigma. This review aims to clarify the concept of mental illness stigma and discuss …

In this study, we build on previous work by develo** and estimating a model of the
relationships between causal attributions (eg, controllability, responsibility), familiarity with …

Advocacy, government, and public-service groups rely on a variety of strategies to diminish
the impact of stigma on persons with severe mental illness. These strategies include protest …

Examining the ways in which affect impacts the trust that develops between members of
dissimilar groups broadens the study of trust development. People's perceptions of their own …

The authors propose a parallel-constraint-satisfaction theory of impression formation that
assumes that social stereotypes and individuating information such as traits or behaviors …