Associative Stigma: An Unseen Force Impacting Mental Health Professionals and Service Users

• By: Philip T. Yanos, PhD John Jay College, City University of New York
• July 14th, 2022
• associative stigma, burnout, family, mental health professionals, serious mental illness, stereotypes, stigma, Summer 2022 Issue
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Stigma toward people diagnosed with serious mental illnesses is a powerful force with pervasive impacts, some of which operate in subtle ways. In explaining the broad-reaching effects of stigma, Goffman (1963) asserted that persons who are “related through the social structure to a stigmatized...

Training the Workforce in Non-Traditional Modalities of Self-Care: A COVID-19 Silver-Lining

• By: Emily Grossman, MA, CPRP Amanda Semidey, LCSW Coordinated Behavioral Care (CBC)
• September 30th, 2021
• burnout, COVID-19, Fall 2021 Issue, meditation, mental health professionals, self-care, training, workforce, yoga
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Over the past 18 months, the pandemic and the many associated societal stressors, have caused great suffering, and the behavioral health (BH) workforce has been no exception. The novel coronavirus and ongoing pandemic have wrought tremendous personal loss, job and/or income insecurity, and forced...