ma.
area.
PUBLIC STIGMA
tizing views about mental illness are not limited to uninformed members of the general
public; even well-trained professionals from
Table 1 Comparing and contrasting the definitions of public stigma and self-stigma
Public stigma
Stereotype
Prejudice
Discrimination
Self-stigma
Stereotype
Prejudice
Discrimination
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investigators.
findings (19,33):
effectiveness
of
mandatory
treatment
mental illness and endorsing psychiatric stigma (54,57). Hence, opportunities for the
public to meet persons with severe mental ill-
them
research
(34,36).
Furthermore,
SELF-STIGMA
17
services (63).
for
Hill, 1998:504-53.
attitudes.
changing
individual
explains this paradox, arguing that an individual with mental illness may experience
diminished self-esteem/self-efficacy, righteous anger, or relative indifference depending on the parameters of the situation (64).
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