Mental health professionals' attitudes towards people with mental illness: Do they differ from attitudes held by people with mental illness?

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-54

  Hansson, Lars ^a   Jormfeldt, Henrika ^b   Svedberg, Petra ^b   Svensson, Bengt ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

attitudes; mental health staff; mental illness; staff patient relationship; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA; SWEDEN;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL STIGMA; STEREOTYPING; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872970210     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764011423176     Document Type: Article

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