Do medical models of mental illness relate to increased or decreased stigmatization of mental illness among orthodox jews?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 508-512

  Pirutinsky, Steven ^a   Rosen, Daniel D ^b   Safran, Rachel Shapiro ^c   Rosmarin, David H ^d  

^a GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

jews; medical model; mental illness; orthodox; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; JEW; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL MODEL; MENTAL DISEASE; MODEL; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POPULATION; RELIGION; SOCIAL DISTANCE; STIGMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JEWS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PREJUDICE; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL DISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954651545     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181e07d99     Document Type: Article

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