NSE 21A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mental Health Nurse, Devaluation, Erving Goffman
3 Feb 2016
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Stigma towards mental illness is poorly understood, often unrecognized by nurses, and impacts both treatment seeking behavior and treatment adherence. Stigma towards mental illness is a serious issue in all cultures and ethnicities, and has a detrimental impact on an individual"s functioning in all life domains. (pinto-foltz, 2008) Bodily sign designed to expose something unusual and bad about the moral status of the signifier (goffman, 1963, as cited in pinto-foltz, 2008) Difference is viewed as undesirable and shameful, and can result in people having negative attitudes and responses (prejudice and discrimination) toward another person (adapted from o"grady, c. (2004)) Prejudice and discrimination is a response to stigma. Not seen as a positive difference; it has a negative connotation to it. Stigma"s are very long lasting and can be permanent. Blemishes: undesirable personality traits (ie, criminal behaviour, e. g. procrastinator. Stigma for ethnicity: when you stigmatize an entire ethnic group.
