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Changing students' constructs of mental patients by means of educative seminars
Author(s) -
Morrison James K.,
Cocozza Joseph J.,
Vanderwyst Donna
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197804)34:2<482::aid-jclp2270340248>3.0.co;2-w
Subject(s) - psychology , psychosocial , mental illness , mental health , mental model , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , cognitive science
Demonstrated that through a brief, didactic, demythologizing approach, college students' attitudes toward mental illness can be changed in a psychosocial or non‐medical model direction. Furthermore, results indicate that such an approach effectively can change students' somewhat negative constructs of mental patients in a positive direction.