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This 7 page paper provides an overview of a study of attitudes towards mental illness. This paper specifically considers the factors that can influence attitude, including age, gender, race and educational attainment. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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illness. In particular, this study determines a link between factors influencing attitude, including race, gender, educational attainment, and age, and then defines specific methods for assessing the implications for
mental health programming. This study relates the significance of existing research about mental illness and the problems that extend from stigmatization. Introduction
For decades, researchers have studied the issue of stigmatization as it applies to people with mental illness (See Norman and Malla, 1983; Lauber et al, 2004). In an effort
to reduce the stigmatization of individuals with mental illness, researchers, including Shera and Delva-Tauiliili (1996), Lauber et al (2004), and Walker and Read (2002) have developed methods to assess factors
that influence the attitudes of people without mental illness towards people with mental illness. In a recent study, Lauber et al (2004) determined a
method for identifying factors that contribute to social distance as indicators of attitudes towards mental illness. These researchers presented a subject population with a vignette which described as person
with mental illness (in this case, symptomatic schizophrenia) and then asked them to respond relative to their attitudes about their emotions, views of treatment or interventions and the impacts on
social distance. The researchers found that individuals with some knowledge of mental illness were more likely to apply stereotypical views to people with mental illness, and as a result,
participate in social distancing (Lauber et al, 2004). Ludbrook and Hafner (1998) even looked at the views of family members and their attitudes towards
family members with mental illness. These researchers studied a subject population of patients who met the criteria for mental illness and asked them to nominate a relative to respond
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