question:
1. How does stigma affect the illness experiences of the mental patients?
2. What strategies would you suggest to tackle the resulting problems that they encountered?
word count:around 1200 words (excluding references and footnotes)
In this essay, we need to analyse the impact of illness experiences on patients with Autism Spectrum Disorde (ASD) on three levels: macro (structural stigma), meso (public stigma) and micro (internalised stigma); and provide strategies to reduce stigma on these three levels, referring to the reduction of stigma.
Should state illness experience and strategies in this 3 level by individually(each paragraph should contain illness experience and strategy)
These 3 aspects are based on framework integrating normative influences on stigma(FINIS).
Illness Experience Example: Parents being complained; not being friends with patients etc.
Structural stigma ( enactment of laws, regulations and policies):
The structural aspect involves the principles, that is, the operation method. Review of organazation has checkllist inside the code of practice. Checklist the existence of biased or discriminatory, stigmatised elements. Then wash them out. This is called operationalisation. It is a way of changing certain principles, perhaps fairness, competency, working with people with different background competent to organisational codes, staff codes. Structural involves legal issues.
Public stigma
Organisational norms in the treatment system affect social interactions between providers and patients and can increase prejudice and discrimination.
Media
Internalised stigma
Self-perceived stigma experiencing shame or feel stigma
Strategy( needs to refer to these 3 works)
▪ “actions people take, or what people do in the face of illness”
▪Corbin and Strauss on the 3 types of strategies (or what they call “work”):
Illness work
▪ Regimen work, crisis prevention and management, symptom management and diagnostic-related work
Everyday life work
▪ Daily tasks that keep, say, a household going
Biographical work
▪ Reconstruction of one’s biography