Social Distance from Mental Illness Among Counseling, Social Work, and Psychology Students and Helping Professionals

Tillman, Douglas R; Hof, David D.; Pranckevičienė, Aistė; Endriulaitienė, Auksė; Markšaitytė, Rasa; Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė, Kristina

doi:10.33043/jsacp.10.1.24-37

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“…Similarly to our findings, coercion and avoidance were the AQ factors that presented the highest scores in a recently conducted study including medical students, psychiatrists, and nonpsychiatry doctors (Oliveira et al, 2020). Other results also reported that compared to the general population, health professionals exhibited similar if not greater social distance toward people with mental illness (Schulze, 2007;Tillman et al, 2018;Yuan et al, 2017). Coercive measures represented by involuntary admissions and treatments are still supported by most of mental health professionals (Corrigan, 2018;Lepping et al, 2004).…”

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Stigma of mental illness and its association with empathic abilities in mental health trainees.

Saguem¹,

Rhouma²,

Nakhli³

2022

Stigma and Health

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The study aimed to assess stigmatizing attitudes, affects, and behavioral intentions toward patients with mental illness in mental health trainees and to address the relationship between these stigmatizing factors and empathic abilities. A correlational cross-sectional study was conducted. A survey was sent to mental health trainees. It comprised the Attribution Questionnaire assessing nine stigma-related attitudes, affects, and behavioral intentions and the Interpersonal Reactivity Index evaluating self-oriented and other-oriented cognitive and affective empathy dimensions. The sample included 160 mental health trainees. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that mental health trainees' empathic abilities were independent predictors of anger, pity, help, and segregation. Participants with stronger perspective-taking were more likely to endorse helping, and those with stronger empathic concern reported less anger, more pity, more helping intentions, and were less likely to endorse segregation. Participants with higher personal distress scores reported more anger toward patients with mental illness. These results shed light to the role-played by empathy dimensions in predicting stigma factors of the responsibility model. Other-oriented cognitive and affective empathy were associated with positive attitudes and less discrimination toward patients with mental illness. Personal distress, a self-oriented affective empathy dimension, was a positive predictor of anger. Promoting mental health trainees' empathic abilities may positively impact their stigmatizing attitudes toward patients with mental illness.

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Stigma of mental illness and its association with empathic abilities in mental health trainees.

Saguem¹,

Rhouma²,

Nakhli³

2022

Stigma and Health

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“…Diversity and inclusion were central to this theme, and investigations were primarily qualitative, although several were quantitative. Research on master’s‐level students found that age, political, spiritual, and religious factors predicted perceived psychological safety and appreciation of differences (Giordano, Bevly, Tucker, & Prosek, 2018); multicultural personality, not ethnic identity, predicted multicultural counseling competency (Fietzer, Mitchell, & Ponterotto, 2018); and helping professionals from different fields did not vary in need for social distance from mental illness (Tillman et al, 2018). Qualitative investigations included those on men’s experiences (Crockett, Elghoroury, Popiolek, & Wummel, 2018) and microaggressions toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, plus other identities (LGBTQ+) students (Bryan, 2018) in master’s degree programs.…”

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Counselor Education and Supervision: 2018 Annual Review

Minton

Hightower

2020

Couns Edu & Supervision

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The authors reviewed 114 articles regarding counselor education and supervision published in professional counseling journals during 2018. The articles represented a range of methodologies, providing insight into current supervision, teaching and training, stakeholder experiences, and professional issues. Implications include a need for research regarding online teaching and learning as well as exploring supervision’s influence on counseling skill and effectiveness.

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“…In addition, lower explicit stigmatizing attitudes were found in female students, in those with a history of MI, and in those who have had a close relationship with a person with a MI (21). In the US, psychology, counseling, and social work students had a similar need for social distance from people with MI, as measured by the Social Distance Scale (22).…”

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Public stigma profile toward mental disorders across different university degrees in the University of Valencia (Spain)

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BackgroundA large proportion of studies carried out in recent years in different populations have shown that stigma toward mental disorders is highly prevalent. In the present study we conducted a comprehensive assessment of stigma to describe and compare stigma toward mental disorders in students enrolled in five different university degrees.MethodsThree hundred and twenty-five students from the University of Valencia (Spain), attending the second term of their first-degree courses in the faculties of medicine, psychology, teaching, economics, and data science participated in this cross-sectional study. Stigma was measured using: the Reported and Intended Behavior Scale (RIBS), the Scale of Community Attitudes toward Mental Illness (CAMI), the Attribution Questionnaire (AQ-27), and the Knowledge about Mental Illness test (KMI).ResultsWe found different patterns of stigma according to gender, the fact of knowing or living with a person with mental disorders and the university degree studied. Overall, women show fewer stigmatizing attitudes than men but similar stereotypes and prejudice toward people with mental disorders. However, the pattern of results across degrees is more complex. Overall, students of medicine, psychology and teaching showed fewer stigmatizing attitudes than students of economics and data science but differences between degrees were more subtle in stereotypes and prejudice toward people with mental disorders.ConclusionOur study suggests the existence of different profiles of stigma in relation to mental disorders in university students. These profiles varied in relation with the degree being studied, gender and already knowing or living with a person with mental disorders.

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Social Distance from Mental Illness Among Counseling, Social Work, and Psychology Students and Helping Professionals

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Stigma of mental illness and its association with empathic abilities in mental health trainees.

Stigma of mental illness and its association with empathic abilities in mental health trainees.

Counselor Education and Supervision: 2018 Annual Review

Public stigma profile toward mental disorders across different university degrees in the University of Valencia (Spain)

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