Associative Stigma: An Unseen Force Impacting Mental Health Professionals and Service Users

• By: Philip T. Yanos, PhD John Jay College, City University of New York
• July 14th, 2022
• associative stigma, burnout, family, mental health professionals, serious mental illness, stereotypes, stigma, Summer 2022 Issue
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Stigma toward people diagnosed with serious mental illnesses is a powerful force with pervasive impacts, some of which operate in subtle ways. In explaining the broad-reaching effects of stigma, Goffman (1963) asserted that persons who are “related through the social structure to a stigmatized...

The Transformative Power of Families Helping Families

• By: Matt Kudish National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City (NAMI-NYC)
• July 14th, 2022
• families, family psychosocial education, family-to-family interventions, mental health stigma, relationships, stigma, Summer 2022 Issue
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“I can now see that my loved one and their mental illness are separate.” I was fortunate to hear this powerful insight recently from one of NAMI-NYC’s participating family members. The National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City (NAMI-NYC) is built on the transformative power of...

When Internalized Ableism and Stigma Intersect

• By: Amanda McDowell National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York State (NAMI-NYS)
• July 13th, 2022
• ableism, disability payments, disability rights, employment, internalized ableism, mental health stigma, PROS, stigma, Summer 2022 Issue
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In February of 2020, I received a letter from the government that I had been approved for disability payments. According to their records, I had been disabled with incapacitating, treatment-resistant depression since November of 2017. The Social Security Administration’s definition of disability...