ArticleThe Journal of nervous and mental disease2013
Implicit and explicit stigma of mental illness: attitudes in an evidence-based practice.
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- Blind spots of psychotherapists? Implicit and explicit mental illness stigma in psychotherapists, psychology students, and laypersons.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Responding to crisis: the intersection of police officer attitudes, organizational climate, and mental health crises.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Is Pediatric Catatonia on the Rise?Hospital pediatrics · 2025Article
- Effect of a Narrative-Based Online Course Aimed at Reducing Stigma Toward Transgender Children and Adolescents: Longitudinal Observational Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Observational
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Implicit Stigma Toward People with Mental Illness Among Different Groups: Measurement, Extent, and Correlates.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Review
- Investigating the impact of acceptance and commitment therapy for mental healthcare professionals: the effect on patients´ self-stigmatization, a pilot study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Attitudes to the use of animals in biomedical research: Effects of stigma and selected research project summaries.PloS one · 2023Article
- The Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Team (START) study: protocol for a multi-site randomized controlled trial evaluating an intervention to improve initiation of medication and linkage to post-discharge care for hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2022Article
- Implicit and Explicit Attitudes of Employers Toward Hiring People Who Have Experienced Depression.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Design of CLARO (Collaboration Leading to Addiction Treatment and Recovery from other Stresses): A randomized trial of collaborative care for opioid use disorder and co-occurring depression and/or posttraumatic stress disorder.Contemporary clinical trials · 2021Article
- Leveraging Neuroscience to Fight Stigma Around Mental Health.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- Determinants of mental health professionals' attitudes towards recovery: A review.Canadian medical education journal · 2020Review
- A Call to Action. A Critical Review of Mental Health Related Anti-stigma Campaigns.Frontiers in public health · 2020Review
- Title: Brief Implicit Association Tests of Stigmatizing Attitudes, Awareness of Mental Distress and Label-Avoidance: A Study in People with Depressive Symptoms.Community mental health journal · 2019Article
- Mental Health Stigma: Explicit and Implicit Attitudes of Canadian Undergraduate Students, Medical School Students, and Psychiatrists.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2019Article
- Labelling of mental illness in a paediatric emergency department and its implications for stigma reduction education.Perspectives on medical education · 2017Article
- Explicit and Implicit Attitudes of Canadian Psychiatrists Toward People With Mental Illness.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2015Article
- Does a Physician's Attitude toward a Patient with Mental Illness Affect Clinical Management of Diabetes? Results from a Mixed-Method Study.Health services research · 2015Article
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Abstract
The extent to which explicit and implicit stigma are endorsed by mental health practitioners using evidence-based practices is unknown. The purposes of the current study were to a) examine implicit and explicit biases among Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) staff and b) explore the extent to which biases predicted the use of treatment control mechanisms. Participants were 154 ACT staff from nine states. Overall, the participants exhibited positive explicit and implicit attitudes toward people with mental illness. When modeled using latent factors, greater implicit, but not explicit, bias significantly predicted greater endorsement of restrictive or controlling clinical interventions. Thus, despite overall positive attitudes toward those with mental illness for the sample as a whole, individual differences in provider stigma were related to clinical care. Mental health professionals, and specifically ACT clinicians, should be educated on types of bias and ways in which biases influence clinical interventions.
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