g at this definition we don't see the full broad scale and depth of the discrimination that happens with stigma; we can better understand the concept if it is broken up into different factors. People distinguish and label human differences all the time, but people pluck out specific ones for social salience. If stigma is to be achieved, then labeled persons are linked to undesirable characteristics or to unwarranted negative stereotypes. The third component is that labeled persons are viewed as an out group as "them" and not "us" and the extreme "They aren't really human". An emotional component can be that people reacting to people with stigma with fear, repulsion, disgust, and the labeled persons may feel shame, embarrassment, and humiliation.
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The study is one example of the public attitude was towards mental illnesses decades ago. Generally people did not recognize mental illnesses as illnesses and did not express optimism about the outcome of treatment. They accepted stereotypes of dangerousness and incompetence. Their attitude was to simply send people away in institutions and keep them away. Beginning in the 1970's and 80's people began to think differently about what's happening about public attitudes for mental …show more content…
In 1950 very few people had TVs, now Americans on average watch tv eight to ten hours a week. "Psyho" films portraying mental illness stereotypes didn't exist in 1950 and now they are more present. We have the internet now. In the US we have this huge phenomenon of direct-to-consumer advertising. We moved from a period of maximum institutionalization to deinstitutionalization. There have been dramatic advances in psychopharmacology and psychotherapy and enormous efforts to educate the public about mental illnesses, teaching that mental illness is an illness like any other and in the US we had this phenomenon of direct-to-consumer advertising. So there's huge changes that occurred. We might have thought that a massive change from a social deviance to a medical view of mental disorders would have broadly reduced stigma, but it has not. The stereotype of dangerousness and incompetence has intensified since these changes and the public beliefs are not good for people with mental
The study is one example of the public attitude was towards mental illnesses decades ago. Generally people did not recognize mental illnesses as illnesses and did not express optimism about the outcome of treatment. They accepted stereotypes of dangerousness and incompetence. Their attitude was to simply send people away in institutions and keep them away. Beginning in the 1970's and 80's people began to think differently about what's happening about public attitudes for mental …show more content…
In 1950 very few people had TVs, now Americans on average watch tv eight to ten hours a week. "Psyho" films portraying mental illness stereotypes didn't exist in 1950 and now they are more present. We have the internet now. In the US we have this huge phenomenon of direct-to-consumer advertising. We moved from a period of maximum institutionalization to deinstitutionalization. There have been dramatic advances in psychopharmacology and psychotherapy and enormous efforts to educate the public about mental illnesses, teaching that mental illness is an illness like any other and in the US we had this phenomenon of direct-to-consumer advertising. So there's huge changes that occurred. We might have thought that a massive change from a social deviance to a medical view of mental disorders would have broadly reduced stigma, but it has not. The stereotype of dangerousness and incompetence has intensified since these changes and the public beliefs are not good for people with mental