Medicalizing versus psychologizing mental illness: What are the implications for help seeking and stigma? A general population study

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1637-1645

  Pattyn, E ^a   Verhaeghe, M ^b   Sercu, C ^a   Bracke, P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Katho University College   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Help seeking; Mental Illness; Public opinion survey; Schizophrenia; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BELGIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STEREOTYPING; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BELGIUM; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885426964     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-013-0671-5     Document Type: Article

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