Ways to increase stigma around mental health 🧑⚕️
Ways to increase stigma around mental health 🧑⚕️
- Blame crime and violence on mental health issues
- Use the mental health system to intervene in criminal activity
- Claim that mental health funding can stop crime
- Mandate mental health treatment, using mental health as part of the criminal justice system
- Make mental health providers mandatory reporters of many things patients say to them, reducing patient confidentiality