TY - JOUR
T1 - Demonstrating translational research for mental health services
T2 - An example from stigma research
AU - Corrigan, Patrick W.
AU - Bodenhausen, Galen
AU - Markowitz, Fred
AU - Newman, Leonard
AU - Rasinski, Kenneth
AU - Watson, Amy
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper was made possible in part by MH 62198 from the NIMH that funds the Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research.
PY - 2003/6
Y1 - 2003/6
N2 - In seeking to understand how the goal of providing efficient and effective mental health services can best be attained, services researchers have developed principles and methods that distinguish it from other research approaches. In 2000, the National Institute of Mental Health called for translational research paradigms that seek to expand the conceptual and methodological base of mental health services with knowledge gained from basic behavioral sciences such as cognitive, developmental, and social psychology. The goal of this paper is to enter the discussion of what is translational research by illustrating a services research program of the Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research on mental illness stigma. Our research strives to explain the prejudice and discrimination that some landlords and employers show toward people with mental illness in terms of basic research from social psychology and contextual sociology. We end the paper with a discussion of the implications of this research approach for the very practical issues of trying to change mental illness stigma.
AB - In seeking to understand how the goal of providing efficient and effective mental health services can best be attained, services researchers have developed principles and methods that distinguish it from other research approaches. In 2000, the National Institute of Mental Health called for translational research paradigms that seek to expand the conceptual and methodological base of mental health services with knowledge gained from basic behavioral sciences such as cognitive, developmental, and social psychology. The goal of this paper is to enter the discussion of what is translational research by illustrating a services research program of the Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research on mental illness stigma. Our research strives to explain the prejudice and discrimination that some landlords and employers show toward people with mental illness in terms of basic research from social psychology and contextual sociology. We end the paper with a discussion of the implications of this research approach for the very practical issues of trying to change mental illness stigma.
KW - Employment discrimination
KW - Housing discrimination
KW - Mental health services research
KW - Mental illness
KW - Stigma
KW - Translational research
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1023277327044
DO - 10.1023/A:1023277327044
M3 - Review article
C2 - 12801071
AN - SCOPUS:0038137025
SN - 1522-3434
VL - 5
SP - 79
EP - 88
JO - Mental Health Services Research
JF - Mental Health Services Research
IS - 2
ER -