Using personification and agency reorientation to reduce mental-health clinicians’ stigmatizing attitudes toward patients
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15744228 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew S Lebowitz (0000-0002-5381-3000, Yale University, corresponding author), Woo-Kyoung Ahn (0000-0002-5203-2376, Yale University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 176-184 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Stigma and Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2376-6964 • E-ISSN: 2376-6972 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/sah0000020 |
| PMID | 27766309 |
| OpenAlex | W2490356387 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 9 |
People with mental disorders are strongly stigmatized. Among mental-health professionals, stigmatizing attitudes often manifest as desire for social distance from people with mental disorders. Currently ascendant biomedical conceptualizations of psychopathology could exacerbate this problem by engendering dehumanization, which is linked to prejudice. Given the clinical implications of such an occurrence, the present research tested a possible mitigation strategy. In an online study of 216 U.S. mental-health clinicians, two strategies for mitigating dehumanization in healthcare were tested- personification , highlighting personal traits of people with mental disorders rather than presenting them as malfunctioning brains, and agency reorientation , underscoring people's ability to make choices and decisions. This approach yielded significantly less desire for social distance, among clinicians, from a person with depression whose symptoms were explained biologically. These findings may suggest an avenue for decreasing stigma in clinical practice
Agency (philosophy · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Dehumanization · Disease · Loneliness · Mental health · Mental illness · Prejudice (legal term · Psychiatry · Psychopathology · Social distance · Social stigma · Sociology · Stigma (botany · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |