Rejection by Mental Health Professionals: A Possible Consequence of Not Seeking Appropriate Help for Emotional Disorders

In a replication of Phillips' study, we ask whether the pattern of rejection of the mentally ill he discovered for the public holds true for our sample of psychiatric nurses. Nurses' rejection patterns diverge from and in part reverse those reported for the public. It is proposed that nurs...

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Published in:Journal of health and social behavior 1968-09, Vol.9 (3), p.222-232
Main Authors: Schroder, David, Ehrlich, Danuta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude of Health Personnel
Clerics
Humans
Mental Disorders
Mental health
Mental illness
Normativity
Nurses
Physicians
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatric nurses
Psychiatric Nursing
Public
Reject/Rejects/Rejecting/ Rejection/ Rejections
Schizophrenia
Social behavior
Social Desirability
Tolerance/Tolerant/Toleration
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Summary:In a replication of Phillips' study, we ask whether the pattern of rejection of the mentally ill he discovered for the public holds true for our sample of psychiatric nurses. Nurses' rejection patterns diverge from and in part reverse those reported for the public. It is proposed that nurses' rejection patterns emerge from the interplay of the public's "normative" and the "psychiatric" perspectives. We further suggest that, with increasing professional psychiatric training and experience, the crucial factor explaining the pattern of rejection is less the seriousness of an individual's mental illness than the "appropriateness" of the help he obtains.
ISSN:0022-1465
DOI:10.2307/2948407