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Lindsay Sheehan

Researcher at Illinois Institute of Technology

Publications -  46
Citations -  838

Lindsay Sheehan is an academic researcher from Illinois Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental illness & Stigma (botany). The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 38 publications receiving 496 citations.

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The Stigma of Personality Disorders

TL;DR: Limited evidence suggests that health provider training can improve stigmatizing attitudes and that interventions combining positive messages of recovery potential with biological etiology will be most impactful to reduce stigma.
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Stakeholder Perspectives on the Stigma of Suicide Attempt Survivors

TL;DR: The stigma of suicide shares similarities with stereotypes of mental illness, but also includes some important differences, and attempt survivors may be subject to double stigma, which impedes recovery and access to care.
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Structures and Types of Stigma

TL;DR: This chapter describes components of these structures, which largely derive from social psychological research, and types, which reflect mechanisms of stigma and mental illness and summarizes research in this area.
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The specificity of public stigma: A comparison of suicide and depression-related stigma

TL;DR: It is suggested that individuals who have attempted suicide are subject to differential stigma content from those with depression, especially for stereotype and prejudice subscales.
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Exploring the public stigma of substance use disorder through community-based participatory research

TL;DR: In their 2016 report, the National Academy of Sciences identified that the existing literature on the stigma of substance use disorder (SUD) is sparse compared to the stigma associated with mental health disorders as mentioned in this paper.