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Mental health care professionals and organizations, powerful an conscious agents in the stigma process?

This study investigates attitudes of mental health professionals towards persons with mental health problems, paying specific attention to stigma. Attitudes and cognitions of mental health care professionals will be compared to those of the general population and social workers who interact with people with mental problems. The different components of stigmatization will be investigated by quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Date:1 Oct 2010 →  30 Sep 2015
Keywords:professionals, mental health care, stigma
Disciplines:Other sociology and anthropology, Policy and administration, Applied sociology, Social theory and sociological methods, Social stratification, Sociology of life course, family and health, Social psychology