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Prejudice and discrimination from mental health service providers
Patricia B Nemec1, Margaret Swarbrick2, Lyn Legere3
1Nemec Consulting.
Topic:
This column describes the experience of prejudice and discrimination that some mental health service users encounter in their interactions with service providers and organizations.
Purpose:
The intent of this column is to highlight potential action steps to address the negative beliefs and attitudes of service providers that contribute to prejudice and discrimination.
Sources Used:
This description draws from published material and the authors' experience.
Conclusions And Implications For Practice:
If the most effective approaches to reduce public prejudice and discrimination toward people diagnosed with a mental illness are education and contact, then those methods may be useful methods to help mental health service providers view and engage persons served from a strengths-based recovery and wellness orientation.
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