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I need assistance writing an annotated bibliography on mental illness stigma and it must include two phenomenological studies, two case studies, one ethnographic case study, and one dissertation.

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Annotated Bibliography mental illness stigma

Lovi, R., & Barr, J. (2009). Stigma reported by nurses related to those experiencing drug and alcohol dependency: A phenomenological giorgi study.

Contemporary Nurse : A Journal for the Australian Nursing Profession, 33(2), 166-78.
This study, done in South East Queensland, found a surprising outcome in this phenomenological study. The themes included inappropriate judgment, advocacy, and education. Nurses working in a drug and alcohol dependency practice were studied and the data analyzed according to Giorgi's phenomenological methods. The study concluded that nurses in such programs need to learn more about their clients, and become better advocates for them. Further, the nurses working in the filed should become more professional in dealing with people with such dependencies and that educating them with curriculum in their Bachelor of Nursing programs might be useful. Those with mental illness are often participants in drug and alcohol dependent lifestyles.

Harvey, R. D. (2001). Individual differences in the phenomenological impact of social stigma. The Journal of Social Psychology,141(2), 174-89.

This study attempts to define the stigmatization of people with mental illness by developing and validating a scale for stigmatization. The study was designed to understand levels of stigmatization, so future work could be more clarified for the reader. Social stigma is one of the outcomes of mental illness and addressing how it affects the person is a key to understanding mental illness, as well as other social constructs such as class and race stigmas.
"The stigmatized are defined in light of whom (i.e., which categories of people) the stigmatizers typically target for their prejudicial and discriminatory acts. Thus, the stigmatized are defined by virtue of their membership in a ...

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