The presentation will start by discussing stigma surrounding large residential care institutions and their residents, persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in the Post-Socialist countries. Then I will briefly analyse the turn in disability policy towards deinstitutionalization: context, underlying reasons, main actors, achievements and obstacles. A special attention I will pay to the research focused upon the manifestations of stigma at the local community level and how it affects political decisions and the general opinion.
I will present the research implemented in 2020 and 2021, including participatory research in the local communities, interviews with community members and persons with disabilities. The analysis will help to reveal the changing geographies of stigma following deinstitutionalization.
Three strategies for changing attributions about severe mental illness; information, contact and protest (Corrigan et al., 2001) will be employed as an analytical framework. It will help to reveal the lack of information exchange; absence and avoidance of “interactions between citizens and persons with psychiatric disabilities” (Corrigan et al., 2001, p. 188). Most interestingly, the research demonstrate that protest was used to express (instead of suppress (Corrigan et al., 2001, p. 187)) negative attitudes and representations of mental illness.
The presentation will start by discussing stigma surrounding large residential care institutions and their residents, persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in the Post-Socialist countries. Then I will briefly analyse the turn in disability policy towards deinstitutionalization: context, underlying reasons, main actors, achievements and obstacles. A special attention I will pay to the research focused upon the manifestations of stigma at the local community level and how it affects political decisions and the general opinion.
I will present the research implemented in 2020 and 2021, including participatory research in the local communities, interviews with community members and persons with disabilities. The analysis will help to reveal the changing geographies of stigma following deinstitutionalization.
Three strategies for changing attributions about severe mental illness; information, contact and protest (Corrigan et al., 2001) will be employed as an analytical framework. It will help to reveal the lack of information exchange; absence and avoidance of “interactions between citizens and persons with psychiatric disabilities” (Corrigan et al., 2001, p. 188). Most interestingly, the research demonstrate that protest was used to express (instead of suppress (Corrigan et al., 2001, p. 187)) negative attitudes and representations of mental illness.
The presentation will start by discussing stigma surrounding large residential care institutions and their residents, persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in the Post-Socialist countries. Then I will briefly analyse the turn in disability policy towards deinstitutionalization: context, underlying reasons, main actors, achievements and obstacles. A special attention I will pay to the research focused upon the manifestations of stigma at the local community level and how it affects political decisions and the general opinion.
I will present the research implemented in 2020 and 2021, including participatory research in the local communities, interviews with community members and persons with disabilities. The analysis will help to reveal the changing geographies of stigma following deinstitutionalization.
Three strategies for changing attributions about severe mental illness; information, contact and protest (Corrigan et al., 2001) will be employed as an analytical framework. It will help to reveal the lack of information exchange; absence and avoidance of “interactions between citizens and persons with psychiatric disabilities” (Corrigan et al., 2001, p. 188). Most interestingly, the research demonstrate that protest was used to express (instead of suppress (Corrigan et al., 2001, p. 187)) negative attitudes and representations of mental illness.
Keywords
deinsitutionalization of care
mental health
stigma
