Stigmatizing Clients With Mental Health Conditions: An Assessment of Social Work Student Attitudes

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Research suggests that stigma plays a major role in discouraging clients from participating in mental health treatment. Because social workers provide a significant amount of such services, this study investigates social work student stigma as a function of their willingness to treat clients with alcohol dependence, nicotine dependence, depression, and Alzheimer's disease. Students held higher levels of stigma toward nicotine dependent clients and less toward those with depression. Personal histories of depression and student agea??but not smoking or alcohol usea??were predictive of higher stigma levels toward nicotine dependent clients. Implications for social work are discussed.View full textDownload full textKeywordsstigma, willingness to treat, drug dependence, depression, Alzheimer's disease, social work studentsRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15332985.2010.540516