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Demythologizing mental patients' attitudes toward mental illness: An empirical study
Author(s) -
Morrison James K.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(197604)4:2<181::aid-jcop2290040214>3.0.co;2-0
Subject(s) - psychosocial , mental illness , psychiatry , psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , mental health
In an attempt to change the medical model attitudes of psychiatric patients in a direction more congruent with the radical psychosocial approach of their clinicians, an experimental group of 13 outpatients was exposed to a series of demythologizing seminars. As predicted, when compared to the attitudes of nontreatment controls (N = 13), on posttest and on a three month followup, results indicated that only the patients receiving the demythologizing seminars reported significant and stable attitude changes in the expected direction.