Stigma Flashcards
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The term stigma has come to mean ‘any attribute, trait or disorder that marks an individual as being unacceptably different from the �normal’ people with whom he or she routinely interacts, and that elicits some form of community sanction’.
New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, second edition, p.5
The most popular model of stigma comes from the work of Link and Phelan and has four aspects to it:-
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Labelling - personal characteristics that mark them as different
Stereotyping - linking labelled characteristics to undesirable characteristics
Separating - separating the labelled group and normal people by viewing them as very different
Status loss and discrimination - the devaluing, rejecting, and excluding of the labelled group
