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Lay attitude towards patients of schizophrenia antisocial personality disorder and homosexuality in Hong Kong and Singapore |
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Overview- Attitude Towards Mental Disorders Studies in the West-(general) - Done on beliefs about mental illness (or attitudes towards them), and the factors affecting them. ... Attitude is characterized by fear and avoidance. ... Raty carried out a structured interview and described how people have mixed feelings towards mental patients. ... Even with patients taking the sick role and thus should be seen as less responsible for the condition, the negative valence remains. 2) mental patients are seen as being alongside us, reacting against the hostile society. Mental patients are assumed a symbolic role in representing the victims of and the disharmony in the society. ... To summarize, it seems that specific educational programmes have a limited effect on promoting a more liberal attitude and that the lack of predictability (associated with dangerousness) and lack of accountability (the attribution of responsibility) of the mentally ill are the major determinants of negative stereotypes and stigma. ... In a 1998 survey by Mak, it was found that public attitude is highly stereotyped and also very negative. ... (EASY 2001) In recent years the Hospital Authority of HK (HA) has launched a programme called 思覺失調服務計劃 (literally translates to “Thought and Emotional disorder service programme”) whereby this ‘thought and emotional disorder’ is actually early psychosis. One aim of the plan is to decrease the negative effects of labelling schizophrenia for the suffering individuals and to increase public understanding and tolerance. ... We do not know how the lay people respond to this new label for psychosis (advertised as thought and emotional disorder), but the advertisement of this programme could have aided the public’s understanding of schizophrenia, and prompted them to label schizophrenia as ‘Thought and Emotional Disorder’. We may investigate whether those who are informed of the new name have a more positive attitude towards individuals with psychotic symptoms. Moreover, most psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in HK, while communicating with patients and lay people about schizophrenia, it is introduced as a brain structural disease caused by imbalance of transmitters, which is also influenced by environmental factors. This is different in Singapore where although an Early Psychosis Intervention Programme (EPIP) is in place in the Institute of Mental Health. |
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Title: Lay attitude towards patients of schizophrenia antisocial personality disorder and homosexuality in Hong Kong and Singapore
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