PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Stigma, Shared Belief, Erving Goffman
23 Feb 2018
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Objectives for this class: to define stigma. Self stigma and social stigma: understand the impact of the stigma on mental health and on health seeking behaviour, evaluate the research on efforts to reduce stigma, review some stigma reduction programs in canada. Jones et al. (1984: a (cid:498)mark(cid:499) (cid:523)attribute(cid:524) that links a person to undesirable characteristics (stereotypes) Justifies mistreatment of (cid:498)them(cid:499: subtle effects of use of language to objectify others, what is the problem with saying someone is schizophrenic or someone is bulimic, status loss and discrimination. Individuals label others and unjustly treat them (refuse work, housing, promotion, etc. : structural discrimination. Institutional practices that disadvantage minorities: barriers to disabled people to participate due to architecture, less funding for research and treatment (mental health vs physical health) Stigma and mental health: even though effective treatments exist for mental disorders, many people do not get treatment, accessibility (treatment not easily available)
