PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 54: American Psychiatric Association, Mental Disorder, Mass Media
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A disgrace/defect that indicates person belongs to a culturally devalued social group. Stigma of mental illness is accompanied by disrespectful & dehumanizing labels: includes names, such as: (cid:498)crazy(cid:499) (cid:498)nuts(cid:499) (cid:498)mental(cid:499) Mass media have a significant influence on society"s negative attitudes toward mental illness: movies, tv shows, advertisements. Stigma of mental disorder affects people while they are ill, while they are healing, & even after they have healed. Ppl work to reduce negative impact of stigma through: education, community action, individual support, other techniques, the dsm: American psychiatric association publishes diagnostic & statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) to help determine whether behavior should be considered a psychological disorder. Book that provides common language & standard criteria for classification of mental disorders: q: who uses the dsm, therapists, researchers, drug companies, health insurance companies, policy makers. First edition of dsm was published in 1952: on the basis of census data & psychiatric hospital statistics, dsm has been revised 6 times.
