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Student Objectives
■ Describe the stigma toward mental illness that exists in society.
■ Identify origins of stigma toward mental illness by analyzing past and current views of mental illness.
■ List at least three ways in which stigma toward mental illness manifests in society.
■ Describe how stigma is wrong and harmful.
■ Identify how stigma can be influenced by one’s race, ethnic heritage, social and/or cultural upbringing.
■ Identify three ways stigma results in significant costs to individuals and society.
■ Compare the reality to societal myths regarding mental illness and violence.
■ Describe alternative ways of viewing mental illness.
■ Identify strategies for combating stigma
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Suggestions for Presentation of Material
Ask the class:
How would you expect a mentally ill person to differ from someone who is not?
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Key Points of Discussion
■ What stigma is and ways it is manifested toward the mentally ill
■ Historical views of mentally ill persons (as witches, possessed by demon spirits, dangerous, weak, morally defective) and how that led to the stigma in today’s society towards the mentally ill
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