Demythologizing mental patients' attitudes toward mental illness: an empirical study.
In an attempt to change the medical model attitudes of psychiatric patients in a direction more congruent with the radical psychosocial approach of their clinicians, an experimental group of 13 outpatients was exposed to a series of demythologizing seminars. As predicted, when compared to the attitudes of nontreatment controls (N = 13), on posttest and on a three month follow-up, results indicated that only the patients receiving the demythologizing seminars reported significant and stable attitude changes in the expected direction.
D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders; D010045:Outpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*