Stigma

This paper aimed to assess the extent that viewing mental illness as either biopsychosocial or psychosocial, has an effect on stigma or social exclusion and help seeking behaviour. It sought to determine if there is any change to the consequences on stigma and help seeking when either model is used. A multistage cluster sample of 381 participants interviewed face to face. Each participant was provided a fictional vignette about schizophrenia to read and respond to. The results were analysed by…

Despite the fact that vibrator sales are less discrete and can be easily seen on store shelves; there still appears to be a stigma attached to female sexuality that might make it more difficult to openly discuss these topics. The stigma comes from a variety of sources that include ideas of female purity, heteronormativity, and the medicalization of sexuality. Though we don’t see the diagnosis of hysteria anymore I definitely believe that this type of medicalization left a lasting impression on…

tract and the eyes. Leprosy is curable and treatment provided in the early stages averts disability. According to WHO; 1.27 lakhs new cases of leprosy in India during 2013-14 and 46845 new cases of leprosy during 2013-14 were women. Disabilities and stigma resulted in lower education, income, and marriage prospects for all elderly women. To change people beliefs and attitudes about leprosy and disability and to improve access to rehabilitation services action researchers need to take action.…

In a 2012 study, Anderson, Adam, & Rivers found that the stigma normally associated with kissing between two heterosexual men is fading, especially among those under the age of 26. Their study, conducted at Universities in Britain, found that it was becoming more common for men to show affection with each other…

America to live with her Canadian/American father. During this interview, I learned many things about Anna’s culture, there are aspects that point to the stigmas that come along with growing up two a multilingual household, the focus of this interview was linguistic stigmas, prestige differences, and linguistic identities. There seemed to be a lot of stigma surrounding language in both households Anna grew up in. At one point in the interview, Anna claimed that her mother would apologize to her…

as a slut along with that slut shaming could be done thinking that it somehow gives the person who is doing the slut shaming a personal gain (Armstrong et al 2014). The theory that is being created in this article is, “Undergraduate women use slut stigma to draw boundaries around status groups linked to social class- while also regulating sexual behaviour and gender performance.” The main concepts of this article are the…

First and foremost, reducing substance abuse must begin with removing the stigma associated with addiction and substance abuse. In our society, millions of Americans are dependent on licit or illicit substances, while only a very small percentage receive the treatment that they need. The 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health…

to confront someone, it’s commonplace to see a retreat. Over the years I’ve found things that are worth feeling the intense chagrin of being unable to get the other person to understand or fighting anxiety to point out something. Whether it be a stigma perpetuated in a majority of horror games, the line with disabilities (e.g “low functioning” and “high functioning”), or how someone speaks about a certain socioeconomic class. Things like this may seem trivial to most but can be detrimental to…

n this essay I will give my thoughts on why I feel Shakespeare altered his female roles depending on the genre he was writing. Gender and sexuality are eminent themes within Shakespeare's work. During the time of Shakespeare's reign there was stigma behind the gender of the performance as women weren't seen suitable to perform so all of the roles had to be performed by men. However both sex's had specific roles in society, men seen to be masculine, emotion not being forefront of their lives,…

individuals in their study 48- 68 percent met criteria for various dimensions of recovery (Liberman, R. P., & Kopelowicz, A. (2005, June). Recovery From Schizophrenia: A Concept in Search of Research. Psychiatric Services, 56(6), 735-742.). Another stigma portrayed in this film is that all people with Schizophrenia are violent or killers. This is shown in the movie when Jerry hallucinates that the stag tells him to end his suffering and so he does. He then accidently stabs his co-worker and…