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Contact sans contact: An experiential mental health stigma-reduction approach
Chloe Farahar | School of Psychology | Problem & Question Solution Hypothesis Mental health. Still taboo – stigma Direct & indirect intergroup contact to reduce stigma is not always feasible, practical, or applied: Provoke anxiety Geographical separation Inaccessible populations Lack experience of interaction (indirect contact) Q. Can a novel Experiential Intergroup Contact (EIC) significantly reduce mental health stigma? Experiential Intergroup Contact is… A…simulated form of intergroup contact using a positive script about the target outgroup in question [mental health experienced] that reclassifies the ingroup actors and the non-present outgroup members under a superordinate category during group rehearsals, and affords experiential sensory cues of the outgroup. It is hypothesised a-priori that Experiential Intergroup Contact will significantly reduce rehearsal group participants’ mental health stigma, more so than individual participants reading the script alone, or controls. Methodology Participants Materials Design College/school students (N = 88+) Those with mental health experiences rated on self-stigma Stigmaphrenia© (2012; Script for Experiential Intergroup Contact) Longitudinal Randomised Control Trial Between-participant conditions EIC Imagined intergroup contact Psycho-education Control Within-participant time factor T1 T2 T3 Measures Procedure/Layout Pre- & post-manipulation measures of explicit stigmatising: Attitudes Affect Behaviour E.g: Peer Mental Health Stigmatization Scale (McKeague, Hennessy, O'Driscoll, & Heary, 2015) Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Davis, 1980): Empathy Perspective-taking Fantasy ability Intended Behaviour (from the Reported & Intended Behaviour Scale; Evans-Lacko, et al., 2011) Time Descriptions T1 Pre-manipulation questionnaire, random assignment to condition, condition participation T2 Post-manipulation questionnaire (directly following manipulation) T3 Post-manipulation questionnaire (two months later) EIC Condition Layout Session Description of session Session 1 - One hour Randomised character role-assignment Silent-read through of script Drama games to relax Group read-through Session 2 - One hour Group read-through X 2 Session 3 - One hour Goal – audio recording of a scene ALERT! Delegate activity: Rehearse with a fellow delegate – pick up a script & rehearse your lines (3 actors needed)! Future Use By combining: Social Psychology + Theatre I have created a: simple, scripted, and effective stigma-reduction method that can be adapted according to age, demographics, and eventually even the target group of contact My PhD research is an attempt to find out: If my form of contact works empirically during a longitudinal study in order to identify the long-term effects of Experiential Intergroup Contact My method will help me to: Hone the script, its message and the process so that it can be used in schools to reduce public as well as self-stigma It is my hope to make the use of words like ‘weirdo’, ‘psycho’, and ‘nutter’ a thing of the past. Picture: Oxford & Buckinghamshire NHS ‘stamping out stigma’ campaign, 2008 Stigmaphrenia© performed in the: UK (Kent; 2013) USA (NC & WI; 2014) Canada (ON; 2017)
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