Changing students' constructs of mental patients by means of educative seminars.
Demonstrated that through a brief, didactic, demythologizing approach, college students' attitudes toward mental illness can be changed in a psychosocial or non-medical model direction. Furthermore, results indicate that such an approach effectively can change students' somewhat negative constructs of mental patients in a positive direction.
D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012938:Social Perception; D013334:Students; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*