Addressing Stigma Among High School Students Using NAMI’s Ending the Silence

• By: Joseph S. DeLuca, PhD Philip T. Yanos, PhD
• April 18th, 2023
• Ending the Silence, high school, mental health education, mental health stigma, NAMI, research, Spring 2023 Issue, stigma, stigma reduction
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Middle adolescence (corresponding to ages 14-18, when youth typically attend high school) is a potentially critical period for both the development of mental health conditions and targeting mental health stigma. Approximately 50% of all diagnosable mental health conditions develop in middle...

Insights From Four Stigma-Reducing Roundtables Organized by the New York State Office of Mental Health and Behavioral Health News

• By: Suzanne B. Feeney, MBA Helen-Maria (Marilena) Lekas, PhD David Minot James Plastiras James Rodriguez, LCSW, PhD Karin A. Wagner, PhD Philip T. Yanos, PhD Jessica Zahn
• April 18th, 2023
• anticipated stigma, behavioral health inequities, community-based agencies, cultural humility, experienced stigma, health care, internalized stigma, intersectionality, lived experience, mental health, recovery, roundtables, social services, Spring 2023 Issue, stigma, substance use, vicarious stigmatization
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The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) in partnership with Behavioral Health News (BHN) organized four roundtable discussions as part of a larger strategic plan to reduce the stigma of mental illness. The roundtable panels consisted of experts working in community-based agencies, most...

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...