Opinions About Mental Illness Held by Patients and Relatives

Bentinck, A.C.S.W. Catherine

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1967.00193.x

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“…Those with more education believed that mental patients were like normals in appearance, and that mental illness is curable. Bentinck (1967) compared the OMI responses of SO hospitalized Veterans Administration schizophrenics and their relatives, SO medical patients and their relatives, and Veterans Administration hospital personnel. She found that the schizophrenics were less Benevolent and Socially Restrictive in their attitudes than either their relatives or hospital personnel.…”

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Opinions about mental illness: A review of the literature.

Rabkin¹

1972

Psychological Bulletin

214

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Opinions about mental illness: A review of the literature.

Rabkin¹

1972

Psychological Bulletin

214

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“…Patients are more likely to deny mental illness if they come from a social group in which it is highly stigmatized. Studies have suggested that clients' attitudes and degree of knowledge about mental illnesses tend to resemble those of the people in their background rather than those of mental health professionals (Bentinck, 1967). There is substantial diversity in the representation of mental illness that members of different social groups bring to their transactions with their doctors (Johnson & Orrell, 1995).…”

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Combining Cognitive Therapy and Pharmacotherapy for Schizophrenia

Kingdon¹,

Rathod²,

Hansen³

et al. 2007

J Cogn Psychother

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Cognitive therapy (CT) is now recognized as an effective intervention for schizophrenia in clinical guidelines developed in the United States (APA, 2006; Lehman et al., 2004) and Europe (e.g., National Institute of Clinical Excellence, 2002). However, empirical studies of CT for schizophrenia, cited as the evidence base for these recommendations, have been conducted solely with patients treated with concurrent medication. It has been a priority in some studies to enhance collaboration with the use of medication and insight into the illness for the individual patient (Kemp, Hayward, Applewhaite, Everitt, & David, 1996); and in most studies, such collaboration has been an integral part of the CT intervention. This article discusses potential interactions between medication and therapy, briefly outlines commonly used medication regimens for schizophrenia, details possible methods to improve adherence to pharmacotherapy, and explores issues encountered in collaboration in combined pharmacotherapy and CT. Finally, we discuss strategies for managing situations in which clients do not want to take medication.

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“…Most of the early studies on attitudes to mental illness (Rabkin, 1972) concentrate on value judgements about the mentally ill (rather than on knowledge of mental illness), and the predominant finding is a high level of intolerance towards them. Of particular interest are a group of studies that include surveys of the attitudes of psychiatric patients to mental illness, though not to their own mental illnesses (Giovannoni & Ullman, 1963;Manis et al 1963;Bentinck, 1967). These studies lend support to the premise that doctors and patients will often not agree about mental illness.…”

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Insight and psychosis: a social perspective

Johnson

Orrell

1995

Psychol. Med.

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SYNOPSISThe last 5 years have seen a resurgence of interest in insight, with better definitions and operationalizations of the concept. However, recent work has paid little attention to the ways in which patients' understanding of their illnesses may be shaped by perceptions of mental illness and treatment prevailing in their cultures and social groups. We review work by social scientists on cultural and social variations in lay perceptions of mental illness and on the stigma attached to mental illness, and argue that these varying views are likely to be one of the influences on insight, requiring further exploration in research on this subject.

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Opinions About Mental Illness Held by Patients and Relatives

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Opinions about mental illness: A review of the literature.

Opinions about mental illness: A review of the literature.

Combining Cognitive Therapy and Pharmacotherapy for Schizophrenia

Insight and psychosis: a social perspective

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