Attitudes of mental health professionals about mental illness: A review of the recent literature

O Wahl, E Aroesty‐Cohen - Journal of community psychology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A large body of research has documented public attitudes toward people with mental illness.
The current attitudes of the people who provide services to those with psychiatric disorders …

Mental health professionals' attitudes towards people with mental illness: Do they differ from attitudes held by people with mental illness?

L Hansson, H Jormfeldt, P Svedberg… - … Journal of Social …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims: Studies investigating mental health professionals' attitudes towards people with
mental illness are scarce and there is a lack of comparative studies including both patients' …

Attitudes of mental health professionals toward mental illness: A deeper understanding

A Crowe, P Averett - Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 2015 - meridian.allenpress.com
Because mental health professionals are not immune to negative attitudes toward adults
with mental illness, researchers have questioned where these attitudes might originate, as …

Mental health professionals' attitudes towards people who have experienced a mental health disorder

M Hugo - Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to gain information about the attitudes of mental health
professionals towards people who have experienced a mental illness. The study involved a …

Conceptions of mental illness: Attitudes of mental health professionals and the general public

JP Stuber, A Rocha, A Christian… - Psychiatric services, 2014 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objectives The authors compared attitudes of the US general public and of mental health
professionals about the competence and perceived dangerousness of people with mental …

Factors involved in the formation of attitudes towards those who are mentally ill

SJ Addison, SJ Thorpe - Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2004 - Springer
Background: This research was conducted to examine the prediction that accuracy of
particular kinds of knowledge of mental illness would be related to particular attitudes …

Health service staff's attitudes towards patients with mental illness

A Arvaniti, M Samakouri, E Kalamara… - Social psychiatry and …, 2009 - Springer
Introduction Stereotypes and prejudices against patients with mental illness are widespread
in many societies. The aim of the present study is to investigate such attitudes among the …

The relationship between demographic factors and attitudes toward mental health services

PJ Leaf, ML Bruce, GL Tischler… - Journal of community …, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
Considerable effort has been exerted in recent years toward educating the public
concerning mental illness and the efficacy of various treatment modalities. Most previous …

Attitudes towards mental illness: A review of the literature

D Bhugra - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
With the advent of community psychiatry, the pressure of care of the mentally ill will
increasingly fall on the family and the community. In order for this transition to succeed, it is …

Attitudes of ward attendants towards mental illness: Comparisons and predictors

P Vibha, S Saddichha, R Kumar - International Journal of …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: In India few studies exist that explore attitudes of mental health professionals,
especially psychiatric ward attendants, towards psychiatric illnesses. This study aimed to …