Kontakt 2006, 8(2):272-279 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2006.045

Stigmatization and mental disorderNursing

Zuzana Kusá1,*, Igor Ondrejka2
1 Univerzita Komenského v Martine, Jesseniova lekárska fakulta, Ústav ošetrovateľstva
2 Jesseniova lekárska fakulta Univerzity Komenského a Martinskej fakultnej nemocnice v Martine, Psychiatrická klinika

The work is aimed at the theme of stigmatization of humans (patients) with mental disorders, which is very important from the standpoint of the society. An individual with a mental disease suffers from consequences of a prejudice and evaluation of his/her disease by other people, which present a principal starting point for attributing him/her marks or stickers - stigma. The stigmatization involves groups of patients, who are specified by the society as carriers of a negative group feature, which affects their position in the society and fulfilling of tasks and which leads to their discrimination. The stigmatization by a mental disorder hits not only patients, but also their care givers, family members, psychiatrists and even psychiatry as a scientific discipline. The work deals with the origin of the concept stigma, sources, forms and mechanisms of the action of the stigma and stigmatization. In the work, a case history is described of a child with mental disorders, who was stigmatized at different levels of the social function, at the level of the school - the teacher and schoolmates, also with a certain participation of the paediatrician of the first contact and subsequent effect on the family - parents. Through the mediation of the case history, the negative effect and consequences of stigmatization hitting the child and its closest environment are analyzed and adequate methods of the de-stigmatization of the patients with mental disorders and also of psychiatry as a principal medicinal discipline are considered. By de-stigmatization of mental diseases, including those occurring in childhood, in people with these diseases, it is necessary to recover their enjoyment of life and dignity and to keep and support their quality of life.

Keywords: stigmatization; mental disorder; psychiatry; de-stigmatization

Published: December 15, 2006  Show citation

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Kusá Z, Ondrejka I. Stigmatization and mental disorder. Kontakt. 2006;8(2):272-279. doi: 10.32725/kont.2006.045.
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