ArticleQualitative health research2024
A Qualitative Study Into the Relative Stigmatization of Mental Illness by Mental Health Professionals.
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- A qualitative literature review of how hearing codas navigate deafness stigma.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2026Review
- The Role of Stigma within Social Networks for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses: An Inductive Model.Administration and policy in mental health · 2026Article
- Dignity in mental health care: the conceptual connections between sense of dignity, stigma and self-stigma among people with mental disorder diagnoses.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Causality effect of 21 metals in plasma and serum, 731 immunocytes, and schizophrenia: an intermediary Mendelian randomization study in East Asian populations.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Mental health professionals stigmatize mental illness, which has significant ramifications for public health and policy. Within this domain, there is a lack of comprehensive research on relative stigma, emotions, and behaviors and an absence of literature that can guide research on these topics. The current study sought to address these limitations. Unstructured interviews were conducted with 22 mental health professionals, and data were analyzed using a grounded theory approach. The current study identified a collection of mental disorders (e.g., borderline personality disorder), stereotypes (e.g., dangerousness), emotion-related responses (e.g., fear), and behaviors (e.g., helping) as being key to the relative stigmatization of mental illness by mental health professionals. The results also suggested that professional context and familiarity with mental illness decrease the stigmatization of mental illness by mental health professionals. These variables and constructs were combined to form a grounded theory of mental health professionals stigmatizing mental illness. The current study has implications for the direction of future research on the stigmatization of mental illness by mental health professionals and interventions that strive to mitigate this type of stigmatization.
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