The professional ideas' influence on the perception of the image of a mentally ill person

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Abstract

People with different level of psychiatric knowledge have different attitudes towards mental ill people. We compared three groups of people: clinical psychologists, psychologists (both groups — students just before graduation), economists. Both clinical psychologists and psychologists (as people who have scientific knowledge about psychiatry) are less stigmatizing mentally sick people than economists, who mostly haven't scientific knowledge in this area. People who met mental patient also stigmatize this kind of people less than people who never contacted with psychiatric patients.

General Information

Keywords: stigmatization, mental ill patient, mental ill patient's image, psychology students, communication with mental ill patients

Journal rubric: Empirical Researches

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Dolnykova A., Demidova L.Y. The professional ideas' influence on the perception of the image of a mentally ill person. Konsul'tativnaya psikhologiya i psikhoterapiya = Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy, 2015. Vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 166–176. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Alexandra Dolnykova, Researcher, Laboratory of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, State Research Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry named after V.P. Serbsky, Moscow, Russian Federation, e-mail: dolnyko@gmail.com

Liubov Y. Demidova, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Head of the Laboratory of Forensic Sexology, V.P. Serbsky National Medical Research Centre for Psychiatry and Narcology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4357-1105, e-mail: lyubov.demidova@gmail.com

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