PSYC 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Mental Disorder, Life Insurance, Terror Management Theory
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The phenomenon of social groups endorsing stereotypes about and acting against a stigmatized group. Can lead to self-stigma: our own stereotypes about who is mental illness, myths about them. The negative effects of stigma can outweigh the negative effects of the mental disorder itself (see hinshaw & stier, 2008). Can lead to decreases in help seeking: stigma is considered to be the foremost barrier to mental health care (see lam. & sun, 2014: as bad or worse than the mental illness itself, this is the reason why people don"t seek care, people lose confidence in their abilities may lose their job. We may shun people who do not contribute to the society. This wold lead to decrease survival to the whole: social psychological theories. a) The following interventions have been shown to be effective (see mittal et al. , 2012): Interventions that alter the stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs of the individual: e. g.
