Studies have investigated the experiences of courtesy stigma and affiliate stigma in family
members of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) without a clear …

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 …

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 …

Self–stigma is distinguished from perceived stigma (stereotype awareness) and presented
as a three-level model: stereotype agreement, self–concurrence, and self–esteem …

This paper explicates the stigma of mental illness as it is experienced by four ethnic minority
groups in the United States. Concerns about prejudice and discrimination among individuals …

Millions of people and their families are affected by mental illness; it causes untold pain and
severely impairs their ability to function in the world. In recent years, we have begun to …

Movies, newspapers, magazines, television shows, books, radio programs, and
advertisements have all been vehicles for communicating the experience of severe mental …

This paper reviews studies on familiarity of mental illness to determine the relationships that
familiarity has with public stigma. We propose a U-shaped relationship between familiarity …

Two established but disparate lines of research exist: studies examining the self-stigma
associated with mental illness and studies examining the self-stigma associated with …

Research on the effectiveness of short-term education programs in changing societal
attitudes about mental illness has been mixed. Education efforts seem to be mediated by …