Mental health clinicians, like the public, are ambivalent toward the mentally ill. Cultural
biases contribute to the negative side of this ambivalence, while the ethic of professional …

Mental health practitioners have an ethical and moral responsibility to practice social justice
principles in their work with their socially marginalized patients/clients. Using a social justice …

Topic: This column describes the experience of prejudice and discrimination that some
mental health service users encounter in their interactions with service providers and …

The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of mental health professionals who
self-identify as having a mental illness by analyzing how they describe their experiences in …

In Brian Canfield's presidential column in the April 2008 issue of Counseling Today, he
asserted that the American Counseling Association “has occasionally become distracted by …

Objective: Subtle expressions of stigmata or microaggressions consist of insensitive and
demeaning remarks or statements which negate an individual's perception of their reality …

The authors explored attitudes toward adults with mental illness. Results suggest that mental
health trainees and professionals had less stigmatizing attitudes than did non‐mental …

Evaluated a program to train consumers of mental health care as case manager aides for
employment in the mental health system. In interviews, 16 consumers who had worked as …

The concept of cultural humility acknowledges the enormous task of becoming culturally
competent by encouraging curiosity about the context within which others live. For …

The aim of the study was to measure and compare prejudice towards people with specific
mental illnesses between mental health professionals and the general population, and …