Annotated Bibliography People from around the world suffer from mental illnesses every day. They wake up in the morning plagued by things like obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), bipolar disorder and depression. Imagine having one of these disorders and having to learn how to manage it. Then imagine having someone discriminate against you for having a mental illness.
Beldie, A., den Boer, J. A., Brain, C., Constant, E., Figueira, M. L., Filipcic, I., & ... Wancata, J. (2012). Fighting stigma of mental illness in midsize European countries. Social Psychiatry And Psychiatric Epidemiology, 47(Suppl 1), 1-38. doi:10.1007/s00127-012-0491-z
In this article they talk about what the mental health stigma is and anti- stigma activities that can help reduce this stigma. All of the many authors are experts in psychiatry in the country where they live. They’re jobs were to explain the certain anti-stigma activities and show how they worked. The researchers found that in every country their idea of mental illness and as well as …show more content…
Boysen and Logan (2016) broke the studies into two. For study one the participants had to read descriptions men or women who show signs of masculine and feminine disorders. After doing the experiment they found that men were more stigmatized than women and the results showed no signs of atypically were shown. Study two was exactly replicated from Wirth and Bodenhausen (2009), they followed the same methods. Boysen and Logan (2016) found that the stigma increased for all of the masculine disorders. As for the stigma-reducing effect of gender atypicality, it was limited to the disorders used in previous research. This article overall found that stereotypical masculinity showed an increase in the stigma toward mental illnesses and the stigma- reducing effect is determined by the sex of the person with the
Beldie, A., den Boer, J. A., Brain, C., Constant, E., Figueira, M. L., Filipcic, I., & ... Wancata, J. (2012). Fighting stigma of mental illness in midsize European countries. Social Psychiatry And Psychiatric Epidemiology, 47(Suppl 1), 1-38. doi:10.1007/s00127-012-0491-z
In this article they talk about what the mental health stigma is and anti- stigma activities that can help reduce this stigma. All of the many authors are experts in psychiatry in the country where they live. They’re jobs were to explain the certain anti-stigma activities and show how they worked. The researchers found that in every country their idea of mental illness and as well as …show more content…
Boysen and Logan (2016) broke the studies into two. For study one the participants had to read descriptions men or women who show signs of masculine and feminine disorders. After doing the experiment they found that men were more stigmatized than women and the results showed no signs of atypically were shown. Study two was exactly replicated from Wirth and Bodenhausen (2009), they followed the same methods. Boysen and Logan (2016) found that the stigma increased for all of the masculine disorders. As for the stigma-reducing effect of gender atypicality, it was limited to the disorders used in previous research. This article overall found that stereotypical masculinity showed an increase in the stigma toward mental illnesses and the stigma- reducing effect is determined by the sex of the person with the