Stigmatisation of Alcohol Dependence: Attitudes of Alcohol-Dependent Patients During Detoxification, Medical Staff and StudentsAbstract. The study investigated attitudes towards people with alcohol dependency and ...
Abstract.Background: Despite being affected by a severe disease with increased morbidity and mortality, alcohol-dependent individuals often experience stigmatizing situations in the health care system. This study ...
Scars from Nonsuicidal Self-Injury – What Plastic Surgery Can DoAbstract.Objective: Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) can induce characteristic scar patterns indicating the origin of these scars. This ...
From «Psychopathy» to «Personality Disorder» – Conceptual History of a Problematic Field within PsychiatryAbstract. The issue of personality disorders addresses fundamental questions of psychiatry: Is there a clear boundary between normal behaviour and ...
The present study investigated how laypeople and professionals (N = 185) judge the rights of someone affected with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and whether social distance exists toward this person. Participants completed a questionnaire after reading a ...
Stigmatization of women with eating disorders: The role of the diagnostic approach and the type of eating disorderAbstract.Background: Two fundamentally different concepts for understanding and diagnosing eating disorders are used in clinical practice ...
Uptake of psychotherapy in adolescents with and without PTSDDespite an increasing amount of research in the field of psychotraumatology, little is known about help seeking behavior of adolescents suffering from PTSD. While effective psychotherapeutic ...
Emotional Reactions, Attitudes, and Treatment Techniques in Children With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Survey Among Child and Youth PsychotherapistsAbstract.Theoretical Background: In the research on stigmatization of persons with psychiatric ...
Background: Interest in studies of stigma toward patients with mental disorders is growing. Research on the attitudes of medical students toward suicide attempters does not exist; although as medical personnel, they will encounter suicide attempters in ...
Abstract.Background: The detrimental consequences of stigma have been recognized in extensive research on mental illness stigma, but experiences of suicide-related stigmatization have not received sufficient ...
Abstract.Introduction: Feelings of stigmatization can strongly influence quality of life in individuals with chronic skin diseases. The Short-Form of the Questionnaire on Experience with Skin Complaints (SF-QES) differentiates four factors of ...
Abstract. We aimed to determine (1) the attributes of multiple stigmatized populations, (2) whether Kurzban and Leary’s (2001) functional typology of stigma emerges and identifies the dimensions upon which each ...