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Australian Catholic University
2016-2025
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2016-2025
Poughkeepsie Public Library District
2024
Florida State University
2001-2023
Vassar Brothers Medical Center
2023
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2022
Neurological Surgery
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2021
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Advocacy, government, and public-service groups rely on a variety of strategies to diminish the impact stigma persons with severe mental illness. These include protest, education, promoting contact between general public these disorders. The authors argue that social psychological research ethnic minority other group stereotypes should be considered when implementing strategies. Such indicates (a) attempts suppress through protest can result in rebound effect; (b) education programs may...
Social cognition has become a high priority area for the study of schizophrenia. However, despite developments in this area, progress remains limited by inconsistent terminology and differences way social is measured. To address these obstacles, consensus-building meeting on schizophrenia was held at National Institute Mental Health March 2006. Agreement reached several points, including definitions terms, significance research, suggestions future research directions. The importance...
Objective: The primary aim of this study was to compare the impact NAVIGATE, a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, team-based treatment approach for first-episode psychosis designed implementation in U.S. health care system, with community on quality life. Method: Thirty-four clinics 21 states were randomly assigned NAVIGATE or care. Diagnosis, duration untreated psychosis, and clinical outcomes assessed via live, two-way video by remote, centralized raters masked design treatment....
The effects of three strategies for changing stigmatizing attitudes—education (which replaces myths about mental illness with accurate conceptions), contact challenges public attitudes through direct interactions persons who have these disorders), and protest seeks to suppress illness)—were examined on attributions schizophrenia other severe illnesses. One hundred fifty-two students at a community college were randomly assigned one the or control condition. They completed questionnaire...
In this study, the paths between two prejudicial attitudes (authoritarianism and benevolence) a proxy measure of behavioral discrimination (social distance) were examined in sample drawn from general public. Moreover, effects person variables (familiarity with mental illness ethnicity) on prejudice path analysis. One hundred fifty-one research participants completed measures toward, social distance from, familiarity illness. Goodness-of-fit indexes analyses supported our hypotheses. Social...
This study examined the effects of familiarity with and social distance from persons who have serious mental illness on stigmatizing attitudes about illness.A total 208 community college students completed three written measures familiarity, perception dangerousness, fear, distance. Path analysis manifest-variable structural modeling techniques was used to test a version model in which influences turn illness.Most participants reported experience illness. Scores largely supported path model....
The purpose of this column is to provide an overview social cognition in schizophrenia. begins with a short introduction cognition. Then, we describe the application study schizophrenia, emphasis on key domains (i.e., emotion perception, Theory Mind, and attributional style). We conclude by discussing relationship neurocognition, negative symptoms, functioning, eye toward strategies for improving
This study investigated what type of information reduces stigmatization schizophrenia. Subjects were presented with one six varying descriptions a hypothetical case in which target individual had recovered from mental disorder. asked if they knew someone illness. Those individuals who no previous contact perceived the mentally ill as dangerous and chose to maintain greater social distance them. In general, knowledge symptoms associated acute phase schizophrenia created more stigma than label...
Background: In schizophrenia, social cognition is strongly linked to functional outcome and increasingly seen as a viable treatment target. The goal of the Social Cognition Psychometric Evaluation (SCOPE) study identify improve best existing measures so they can be suitably applied in large-scale studies. Initial phases this project sought (1) develop consensus on critical domains (2) for use Methods: Experts were invited nominate key those domains. Nominations reduced according set...
The fact that individuals with schizophrenia have high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality is well established. However, risk status moderators or mediators in the earliest stages of illness are less clear.To assess cardiometabolic first-episode spectrum disorders (FES) its relationship to duration, antipsychotic treatment duration type, sex, race/ethnicity.Baseline results Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) study, collected between July 22, 2010, 5, 2012, from 34...
Introduction. This study reports on the development of a new measure hostile social-cognitive biases for use in paranoia research, Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ). The AIHQ is comprised variety negative situations that differ terms intentionality. Items were developed to reflect causes ambiguous, intentional, and accidental nature. Methods. Participants 322 college students who completed along with measures paranoia, hostility, attributional style, psychosis proneness....
The Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) program was developed based on a comprehensive review of research teaching illness self-management strategies to clients with schizophrenia other severe mental illnesses "packaged" in resource kit facilitate dissemination. Despite growing dissemination this program, it has not yet been empirically validated. This article describes the development theoretical underpinnings IMR presents pilot data from United States Australia (N = 24, 88% or...