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...