Stigma

By J. C. Santos, S. Barros, Irma M. M. Santos. Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 2016

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In this study, we have surveyed how professionals from multidisciplinary teams at psychosocial care centers (CAPS), in the city of São Paulo, understand the concept of mental illness stigma. The aim of the survey was to characterize the actions developed by the team to overcome stigma and, thus, contribute to develop strategies that incorporate overcoming stigma in the territory. Our objective is to get acquainted to the concepts about stigma shared by the participants. This survey was based on the theory of stigma by Erving Goffman; data were collected through semi-structured interviews with mental health professionals belonging to the CAPS teams. Results indicate that social exclusion is understood as a synonym to stigma, and that proximity of CAPS to society in the territory facilitates social inclusion and the overcoming of the mental illness stigma.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases, Social Psychology

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Countries and Cultural Differences in the Stigma of Mental Illness: The East–West Divide (2020, background): “While causes from impoverished resources to limited understandings contribute to the low utilization of mental illness treatment and prevention, stigma—the prejudice and discrimination attached to “devalued” attributes (e.g., mental illness; Goffman, 1963)—is seen as a”
Seeing the Destination AND the Path: Using Identity‐Based Motivation to Understand and Reduce Racial Disparities in Academic Achievement (2017, background): “Stigmas, which are negatively marked actual or imagined attributes about people (Goffman, 1963; Link & Phelan, 2001; Major & O’Brien, 2005), form the basis of discriminatory treatment”
Getting a Life Takes Time: The Development of the Life Story in Adolescence, Its Precursors and Consequences (2015, background): “The life story offers four major advantages compared to social-psychological [Turner, 1975] and sociological [Goffman, 1963] concepts of personal and social identity, which are defined in terms of membership in groups and combinations of these, as well as compared to a concept of personality…”
School Bullying as a Collective Action: Stigma Processes and Identity Struggling (2015, neutral): “According to Goffman (1963), when a person is stigmatised, others believe he or she is not quite human as a result of a collectively constructed and maintained stigma.”