Can Health Care Reform End Stigma Toward Mental Illness?. Issue 2 (3rd May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Weiss, Eugenia L.; Gross, Gregory D.; Moncrief, Don
• Is Part Of: Journal of progressive human services. Volume 27:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 95
• Page End: 110
• Publication Date: 2016-05-03
• Subjects: Health care reform -- antistigma efforts -- mental health stigma -- stigma and mental illness; Social service -- United States -- Periodicals; Radicalism -- United States -- Periodicals; 361.97305
• DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2016.1155249
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1042-8232

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article addresses the destigmatization of mental health through health care reform by incorporating antistigma efforts—a destaining of mental illness—through prevention and early intervention in community-based programs that would be mandated and funded through the auspices of Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Mental health care policies under the ACA and the Mental Health Parity Act are briefly described, following a definition of mental health stigma and its impacts. Recommendations for statutory mandates in stigma reduction at the community and federal levels and guidelines for mental health/behavioral health providers form the article's conclusion.