The Impact of Stigma on Psychological Well-Being and Treatment Seeking
As an assignment for my Abnormal Psychology Analysis course, which I completed in the spring of 2019, I wrote a literature review regarding the impact of mental illness stigma on patients’ treatment-seeking behaviors and well-being. Understanding the impact of stigma is important, as I hope to be a mental illness clinician in the future. This project helped me to fully understand the wide-reaching effects that mental illness stigma has for individuals with mental illness, and the ways that the community of mental illness clinicians can work to lessen the negative effects.