Stigma in patients with mental disorders- its manifestations and consequences

Abstract

Inspite of the problems of sigma being widely discussed, there still continue the attempts to understand the ways and factors producing the self-stigmatizing and mechanisms obtruding the involvement of self-stigmatized patients into the treatment process. In the present study there took part 66 in-patients with severe mental disorders. There were used the questionnaire of self-stigmatizing, devaluation/discrimination part of the experienced stigmatizing questionnaire and motivation for treatment rating scale. Detected some significant factors in producing the self-stigmatizing and influence of the implicit self-stigmatizing, the severeness of which results in the development of the explicit self-stigmatization, which destruct the motivation for treatment.

Keywords

• психиатрическая стигма
• самостигматизация
• психические расстройства
• мотивация к лечению
• stigma
• self-stigmatization
• severe mental disorders
• motivation for treatment