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8 Implementing Change in the U.S. Context: Critical Evaluations
8 Implementing Change in the U.S. Context: Critical Evaluations
Pages 79-88
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CHANGING STIGMA THROUGH CONTACT AND PROPOSITION 63 Corrigan discussed the work he has been doing with the California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA)
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in civil rights and to Clifford Beers, who in the 1900s was hospitalized for more than 2 years in Illinois for mental illness and became one of the first advocates in the mental health field. In exploring ways to address stigma with CalMHSA, Corrigan derived a matrix composed of three processes (or interventions)
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Implementing such programs also requires people with behavioral disorders "coming out of the closet," as was done in changing people's attitudes about the gay, lesbian, bisexual community. Corrigan noted that famous people with similar disorders, such as Rod S teiger, Patty Duke, and Mike Wallace, have come out, which has helped reduce stigma.
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He urged the audience members to send good research his way. RESULTS FROM A SCHOOL-BASED INTERVENTION TO CHANGE NORMS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESSES Link introduced his talk by referring to the silent suffering that lies below the bullying and isolation of youth with mental health problems.
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Link added that these supplemental materials also were used as a comparative condition. Study Design and Methods Link stated that the researchers' objective was to evaluate the effects of the curriculum, the contact, and the supplemental materials on the youth's knowledge and attitudes about mental illness, behaviors and behavioral intentions regarding mental illness, and help-seeking attitudes and behaviors.
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Link described the multimethods approach used for measurement, which involved the following: • an open-ended question concerning what mental illness is; • self-reports of knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors about mental illnesses and help seeking for such illnesses, and responses to vignettes describing mental illnesses experienced by youth ( ipolar b and anxiety disorders) ; • implicit attitudes toward mental illnesses; and • collateral reports from parents on both their own attitudes and their children's help seeking.
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9) , who conducted the first nationwide study of public attitudes toward mental illness in the United States in 1950: I think that we must all soberly recognize that when we talk about the long-run aims of mental health education, we are talking about bringing about a veritable revolution in people's ideas about some very fundamental questions.
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Link commented that his team's findings were modest, but suggested that a curriculum may help children until they are older and ready for contact interventions. In addressing the point about terminology, Link added that for measurement purposes, the team tried to describe the conditions themselves.
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At the same time, he agreed that at the level of a public message, one must address this issue. He noted that the field still talks about the stigma of mental illness rather than the stigma of mental health conditions for two reasons: mental health is not stigmatized, while mental illness is, and people understand and relate to the term "illness" more than the term "condition." Link also agreed with the challenges entailed in choosing acceptable terminology while using language people understand immediately.
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88 PROCEEDINGS PART II: OPPORTUNITIES AND STRATEGIES are describing an event such as that involving the pilot who allegedly crashed a plane into a mountain in a suicide event, they use the term "mental illness." But, Link said, the effect is stigmatizing, and this is an issue the field needs to address.
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