ReviewPsychological bulletin2010
The disclosure processes model: understanding disclosure decision making and postdisclosure outcomes among people living with a concealable stigmatized identity.
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241 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Disclosing mental health in medical education: A global qualitative meta-synthesis.Medical education · 2026Pooled it
- What Is the Value of Lived Experience Within Mental Health Professionals, and How Can It Influence Practice? A Systematic Review.International journal of mental health nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Disclosure experiences in LGBTQ+ healthcare staff: a systematic review and meta-synthesis.BMJ open · 2026Pooled it
- Social support and internalizing psychopathology among sexual and gender minority individuals: A meta-analysis.Clinical psychology review · 2026Pooled it
- Disclosing Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis Exploring the Experience of, and Barriers and Facilitators to, Self-Disclosure.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2025Pooled it
- People With Dementia Disclosing Their Diagnosis to Social Networks: A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis.The Gerontologist · 2025Pooled it
- Barriers and facilitators of HIV partner status notification in low- and lower-middle-income countries: A mixed-methods systematic review.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Pooled it
- The Process of Online Disclosures of Interpersonal Victimization: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Pooled it
- Disclosure of Mental Health Problems or Suicidality at Work: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review of the evidence relating to disclosure of psychological distress by mental health professionals within the workplace.Journal of clinical psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Honest, Open, Proud to support disclosure decisions and to decrease stigma's impact among people with mental illness: conceptual review and meta-analysis of program efficacy.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Pooled it
- Sexual orientation concealment and mental health: A conceptual and meta-analytic review.Psychological bulletin · 2020Pooled it
- I Didn't Want the Psychotic Thing to Get Out to Anyone at All: Adolescents with Early Onset Psychosis Managing Stigma.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Impact of children's age on parental HIV disclosure: a parental HIV disclosure intervention among parents living with HIV in China.AIDS care · 2024Trial
- Disclosing Recovery: A pilot randomized controlled trial of a patient decision aid to improve disclosure processes for people in treatment for opioid use disorder.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Trial
- Honest, Open, Proud (HOP) for people with mental illness in Hong Kong: a randomized controlled trial.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Trial
- Coming out under fire: The role of minority stress and emotion regulation in sexual orientation disclosure.PloS one · 2022Trial
- Experiences of Living with HIV, Stigma, and Healthcare Access in Australia among People Born in China, Thailand, and Latin America Compared to People Born in Australia.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Empathy and Interest Towards an Autistic Person and the Effect of Disclosing the Diagnosis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Adolescents' Daily Disclosure and Concealment and Their Associations with Functional Autonomy and Detachment from Mothers.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
181 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Disclosure is a critical aspect of the experience of people who live with concealable stigmatized identities. This article presents the disclosure processes model (DPM)-a framework with which to examine when and why interpersonal disclosure may be beneficial. The DPM suggests that antecedent goals representing approach and avoidance motivational systems moderate the effect of disclosure on numerous individual, dyadic, and social contextual outcomes and that these effects are mediated by three distinct processes: (a) alleviation of inhibition, (b) social support, and (c) changes in social information. Ultimately, the DPM provides a framework that advances disclosure theory and identifies strategies that can assist disclosers in maximizing the likelihood that disclosure will benefit well-being.
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