Lect 4 - Stigma

Question 1

What would you call a cluster or group of co-occurring, relatively invariant symptoms found in a specific cultural group, community, or context.

Answer 1

A cultural syndrome

Question 2

What would you call a linguistic term, phrase, or way of talking about suffering among individuals of a cultural group (e.g., similar ethnicity and religion) referring to shared concepts of pathology and ways of expressing, communicating, or naming essential features of distress

Answer 2

A cultural idiom of distress

Question 3

What is the four factor model of stigma developed by Pryor and Reeder (2011)?

Answer 3

1. Structural
2. Public (though to be influential of all other factors)
3. Self
4. Association

Question 4

What is structural stigma?

Answer 4

The stuff baked into institutions

Question 5

What is public stigma?

Answer 5

Exhibited by the public in relation to patients -

1. attitudes
2. emotion responses
3. behaviours

Question 6

What’s self-stigma

Answer 6

Basically, internalisation

But weirdly, also the ‘direct effects of stigma’

Question 7

Stigma by association

Answer 7

is pretty self-explanatory

Question 8

Who produced the first comprehensive amount of stigma?

Answer 8

Goffman (1963)

Question 9

What is Goffman (1963) associated with?

Answer 9

The first comprehensive amount of stigma

Question 10

What is an attribution questionnaire? (Corrigan et a 2003)

Answer 10

A thing used to measure stigma

Corrigan et a 2003

Question 11

What are six factors on Corrigan’s attribution questionnaire?

Answer 11

1. Fear/Dangerousness
2. Help/Interact
3. Responsibility
4. Forcing Treatment
5. Empathy
6. Negative Emotion

Question 12

What would be the impact of changing the name of, say, Schizophrenia, according to Ellison, Mason and Scior (2015)?

Answer 12

In some ways (lesser dangerousness) but not really overall

Question 13

What are the two stigma reduction approaches that have been shown to be effective?

Answer 13

1. Contact

2. Education