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Acceptance of Mental Illness Among Men
2016This chapter explores the unique barriers and facilitators to acceptance that men with serious mental illness may experience. The values associated with traditional masculinity are discussed as they pertain to the process of accepting mental illness. Barriers specific to men in our research studies are detailed, including avoidance of help-seeking and ...
Lauren Mizock, Zlatka Russinova
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Self-Acceptance and Chronic Illness
2013Diagnosis with a chronic medical condition can be an extraordinary stressor. As an individual adjusts to living with a chronic illness, often his or her understanding of self changes and evolves to include this new element. Psychologically this may present an intense challenge to adjustment, which may then impact how the illness is managed and perhaps ...
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The Contribution of Chronic Illness to Acceptance of Death in Hospitalized Patients
Clinical Nursing Research, 2002This pilot study explored acceptance of death in the chronically ill. It was hypothesized that chronic illness would be a positive predictor of premature acceptance of death. Acceptance of death, if premature, may lead to untimely acquiescence to death, making people less likely to seek medical care and practice preventive health behaviors.
Joyce, Nichols, Barbara, Riegel
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Acceptance of mental illness: Core components of a multifaceted construct.
Psychological Services, 2014The recovery movement has identified acceptance of mental illness as critical to quality of life and illness management. However, there is a general lack of research on the acceptance of mental illness. The present qualitative study was conducted with 30 participants with mental illness to clarify the construct of acceptance.
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Barriers and Facilitators to Acceptance of Mental Illness
2016A number of barriers and facilitators have been theorized to impact the process of accepting serious mental illness. This chapter discusses the identified barriers and facilitators to acceptance of mental illness, using excerpts from research interviews with participants with serious mental illness.
Lauren Mizock, Zlatka Russinova
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Community Acceptance of the Mentally Ill in Foster Family Care
Health & Social Work, 1984Community acceptance has been described as essential to the successful placement of the mentally ill in the community. The study reported here examined acceptance of mental patients living in family care homes and found that residents were well accepted by neighbors and by others in the community, albeit on a superficial level, and that acceptance ...
S R, Sherman, E S, Newman, E R, Frenkel
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The Multiple Dimensions of the Acceptance of Mental Illness
2016This chapter explains the multidimensional construct of acceptance, including the five dimensions of this process. Interview excerpts are provided as evidence of each of these five dimensions. The five dimensions include (1) identity dimension (developing a positive sense of self in the face of mental illness); (2) cognitive dimension (developing ...
Lauren Mizock, Zlatka Russinova
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British Journal of Health Psychology, 2001
Objectives. Social behaviour was investigated as a contributor to the peer acceptance of children with chronic illness. We predicted that children with illness would receive less acceptance than children without illness, and that prosocial behaviour would improve acceptance, while aggressive behaviour would hamper it.
M A, Alderfer, D J, Wiebe, D P, Hartmann
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Objectives. Social behaviour was investigated as a contributor to the peer acceptance of children with chronic illness. We predicted that children with illness would receive less acceptance than children without illness, and that prosocial behaviour would improve acceptance, while aggressive behaviour would hamper it.
M A, Alderfer, D J, Wiebe, D P, Hartmann
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Acceptance of Mental Illness Among Women
2016This chapter reviews the experiences of women with serious mental illness and the various disparities encountered by them. These disparities include higher rates of victimization, unemployment, poverty, homelessness, and inequities in clinical care. The impact of these disparities and associated stigma on the acceptance process is presented.
Lauren Mizock, Zlatka Russinova
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Social acceptance of psychiatric illness and psychiatric treatment
Social Psychiatry, 1981Successful re-integration of former psychiatric patients into the community rests upon social acceptance of such persons. A set of empirical studies is widely interpreted as supporting a high degree of indigenous community rejection of the mentally ill.
P. M. Roman, H. H. Floyd
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