Target-specific stigma change: a strategy for impacting mental illness stigma.

摘要: In the past decade, mental health advocates and researchers have sought to better understand stigma so that harm it causes can be erased. this paper, we propose a target-specific change model organize diversity of information into cogent framework. "Target" here has double meaning: power groups some authority over life goals people with illness specific discriminatory behaviors which might produce interfere these goals. Key in include landlords, employers, care providers, criminal justice professionals, policy makers, media. Examples are provided stigmatizing attitudes influence behavior social context group interacts illness. Stigma is most effective when includes all components describe how impacts