Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health
problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the …

For parents of children with disabilities, stigmatization is part of everyday life. To resist the
negative social and emotional consequences of stigma, parents both challenge and deflect …

How can sociology explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or individuals?
This authoritative book makes a case for the renewal of the sociology of mental illness …

Abstract Background In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), public attitudes and stigma
toward mental health illness seem to prevent people from seeking psychological help, which …

Despite the breadth of research on mental illness, there remains some ambivalence about
the distinct and combined effects of mental illness labels and deviant behavior for stigma …

Physical conditions, such as body size, physical deformity, and deafness, elicit stigma, which
has emotional, social, and health consequences. Researchers have consistently found that …

One of the strengths of vignette-based experimental research is that it captures the mental
illness labeling process in the way it often occurs—inference without full information …

Scholars across several theoretical traditions have become increasingly interested in
understanding the underlying factors and mechanisms that contribute to the formation and …

The self-fulfilling prophecy can be best described as an assumption that, only because of the
fact of being believed, provokes certain expectations and patterns of behavior that …

The literature on mental illness stigma is expansive, however the bulk of research has
focused on cultural and personal level factors such as perceptions of public attitudes toward …