Tags /Mental Health

Articles

• African American Community Mental Health Fact Sheet

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  Fact sheet with statistics on mental health in the African American community. Released by NAMI.

• Seeking Professional Help for Personal Problems: Black Americans' Use of Health and Mental Health Services

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  Abstract: This article explored the use of health and mental health services for serious personal problems in a national sample of adult black Americans. The results indicated low usage of the...

• NPR: Mental Health in the Black Community

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  NPR's News & Notes kicks off a new series on mental health. Listen to insight on mental illness and racial disparities in mental health care from Dr. Annelle Primm — director of...

• African American Utilization Report

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  Authored by Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services, the African American Utilization Report is a set of goals and recommendations identifying the African American community's greatest...

• Chinese and American Perspectives on Stigma

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  Chinese and American Perspectives on Stigma by Chow S. Lam, Hector Tsang, Fong Chan, Patrick W. Corrigan "This paper discusses the Chinese and American perspectives on stigma. We review...

• A Qualitative Exploration of African-Americans' Attitudes Toward Mental Illness and Mental Illness Treatment Seeking

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  A Qualitative Exploration of African-Americans' Attitudes Toward Mental Illness and Mental Illness Treatment Seeking by Alicia K. Matthews, Patrick W. Corrigan, Barbara M. Smith, and Frances...

• What Lessons Do Coming Out as Gay Men or Lesbians Have for People Stigmatized by Mental Illness?

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  What Lessons Do Coming Out as Gay Men or Lesbians Have for People Stigmatized by Mental Illness? by Patrick W. Corrigan, Jonathan E. Larson, Julie Hautamaki, Alicia Matthews, Sachi Kuwabara,...

• Mental Illness Stigma: Problem of Public Health or Social Justice?

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  Mental Illness Stigma: Problem of Public Health or Social Justice? by Patrick W. Corrigan, Amy C. Watson, Peter Byrne, and Kristin E. Davis "The U.S. Surgeon General's report on mental...

• Impact of Consumer-Operated Service on Empowerment and Recovery of People with Psychiatric Disabilities

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  Impact of Consumer-Operated Service on Empowerment and Recovery of People with Psychiatric Disabilities by Patrick W. Corrigan "Although the professional literature is replete with...

• Shame, Blame, and Contamination: A Review of the Impact of Mental Illness Stigma on Family Members

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  Shame, Blame, and Contamination: A Review of the Impact of Mental Illness Stigma on Family Members by Patrick W. Corrigan and Frederick E. Miller "In his classic text, Goffman (1963) defined...

• Examining Cues that Signal Mental Illness Stigma

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  Examining Cues that Signal Mental Illness Stigma by Matthew Schumacher, Patrick W. Corrigan, and Timothy Dejong "Erving Goffman (1963) distinguished between stigmas that are readily perceived...

• Police Officers' Attitudes Toward and Decisions About Persons with Mental Illness

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  Police Officers' Attitudes Toward and Decisions About Persons with Mental Illness by Amy C. Watson, Patrick W. Corrigan, Victor Ottati "A significant portion of police work involves...

• An Attribution Model of Public Discrimination Towards Persons with Mental Illness

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  An Attribution Model of Public Discrimination Towards Persons with Mental Illness by Patrick Corrigan, Fred E. Markowitz, Amy Watson, David Rowan, and Mary Ann Kubiak "In this study, we build...

• Mental Illness Stereotypes and Clinical Care: Do People Avoid Treatment Because of Stigma?

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  Mental Illness Stereotypes and Clinical Care: Do People Avoid Treatment Because of Stigma? by Patrick W. Corrigan "Despite the evidence that pharmacological and psychosocial treatments yield...

• From Whence Comes Mental Illness Stigma?

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  From Whence Comes Mental Illness Stigma? by Patrick W. Corrigan "This papers seeks to answer two fundamental questions: What is the basis of the current form of mental illness stigma? and Why...

Organizations

• National Resource Center for Hispanic Mental Health

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  The National Resource Center for Hispanic Mental Health (NRCHMH) is a private non-profit charitable organization dedicated to promoting quality mental health services through policy development...

• Changing Stigma Through Contact

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  Changing Stigma Through Contact by Patrick W. Corrigan "A review of the research literature suggest three approaches for diminishing social stigma: protest, education, and contact. Although...

• Stay Strong Foundation

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  Stay Strong Foundation was established in conjunction with the release of Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens, the second book authored by Terrie Williams. In the book, Terrie focuses on the...

• Real Warriors

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  The Real Warriors Campaign is an initiative to promote the processes of building resilience, facilitating recovery and supporting reintegration of returning service members, veterans and their...

• National Organization for People of Color Against Suicide

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  NOPCAS serves as the only national organization of its kind addressing the issue of suicide prevention and intervention, specifically in communities of color. Our primary focus and mission is to...