title: Attitudes to people with mental handicap.
abstract: Nurses working with mentally handicapped people may have much to learn from the work and theories of social psychologists. Ron Elvins' wide-ranging article explores some of these theories and looks at how prejudices arise; examples from socio-psychological research serve as illustrations of the problems which integration of population groups present, and perhaps offer models of how integration can be successfully facilitated.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Elvins
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D003073:Cognitive Dissonance; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008282:Mainstreaming, Education; D008402:Mass Media; D011287:Prejudice; D011593:Psychology, Social