Living with stigma and the self-perceptions of people with mild intellectual disabilities [PDF]
There is now overwhelming evidence concerning the awareness people with moderate to mild intellectual disabilities' have about the stigma they experience in their lives.
Kirsten Stalker +8 more
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Resisting and challenging stigma in Uganda : the role of support groups of people living with HIV [PDF]
Introduction: Global scale up of antiretroviral therapy is changing the context of HIV-related stigma. However, stigma remains an ongoing concern in many countries. Groups of people living with HIV can contribute to the reduction of stigma.
Grace W Mwai +16 more
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Resilience Predicts Self-Stigma and Stigma Resistance in Stabilized Patients With Bipolar I Disorder
The identification of factors that prevent self-stigma and on the other hand promote stigma resistance are of importance in the long-term management of bipolar disorder.
Fabienne Post +5 more
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Understanding and addressing the stigma of mental illness with ethnic minority communities [PDF]
Higher income societies have moved from institutional to community-based care for people experiencing mental illness. However, stigma and discrimination persists and undermines help-seeking, recovery and life chances.
Knifton, Lee
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Self-Stigma in Parkinson's Disease: A 3-Year Prospective Cohort Study
PurposeSelf-stigma is common in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and may lead to social isolation and delayed search for medical help. We conducted a 3-year prospective longitudinal study to investigate the development and evolution of self-stigma ...
Junyu Lin +8 more
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Measuring Weight Self‐stigma: The Weight Self‐stigma Questionnaire [PDF]
Stigma associated with being overweight or obese is widespread. Given that weight loss is difficult to achieve and maintain, researchers have been calling for interventions that reduce the impact of weight stigma on life functioning. Sound measures that are sensitive to change are needed to help guide and inform intervention studies.
Lillis, J. +3 more
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The Impact of a Counseling Techniques Course on Self-efficacy and Stigma
: Authors analyzed data from counseling trainees in a skills course to examine self-efficacy and stigma. It was hypothesized that self-efficacy would increase, self-stigma would decrease, and that increased self-efficacy would decrease self-stigma in CTs.
Allison Crowe +4 more
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Nursing Students’ Attitudes Toward Seeking Psychological Help Associated to Self-Stigma and Perceived Social Stigma [PDF]
Introduction: Nursing students often experience stress due to their educational demands and developmental stage. This study focuses on nursing students to investigate the relationship between their attitudes toward seeking psychological help and their ...
Özcan Özdemir +2 more
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Stigma and Self-Stigma in Addiction [PDF]
Addictions are commonly accompanied by a sense of shame or self-stigmatization. Self-stigmatization results from public stigmatization in a process leading to the internalization of the social opprobrium attaching to the negative stereotypes associated with addiction. We offer an account of how this process works in terms of a range of looping effects,
Steve Matthews, Robyn Dwyer, Anke Snoek
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ObjectiveThe stigma of mental illness is widespread in the general population and also among healthcare and psychiatric professionals. Yet, research on the self-stigma of the latter is still limited.
Stefan Stuetzle +6 more
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