Izkušnje s procesi stigmatizacije zaradi težav v duševnem zdravju : magistrsko delo

Vožič, Nadja (author), Šabić, Amra (mentor)

Stigma, beseda, ki zareže v človeka. Predvsem v ljudi, ki jo doživljajo in ostajajo sami v njenem primežu. Ne izbira in se ne ozira na družbeni status, ekonomske razmere, socialne razmere, vero, raso in spol. Tukaj je med nami, vsakodnevno prisotna in vendar je ne znamo opaziti ali pa se nanjo ne oziramo. Vse dokler ne oplazi nas in/ali naših najbližjih. Takrat se bodisi začnemo soočati z njo bodisi bežimo pred njo, a ji nimamo kam ubežati, ker nas bo vedno dohitela. Prisotna je povsod tam, kjer se pojavijo kakršnakoli odstopanja od sprejetih in splošno uveljavljenih družbenih norm. Vseprisotna je tudi pri ljudeh s težavami v duševnem zdravju. Ti ljudje neredko ostajajo sami s svojimi težavami, se identificirajo s postavljeno diagnozo in se samostigmatizirajo. O stigmatizaciji in samostigmatizaciji ljudi, ki imajo težave v duševnem zdravju, se v družbi še vedno premalo govori, vsak človek pa lahko razvije težave v duševnem zdravju in se znajde v položaju stigmatiziranega. Posledica je situacija, ki je zanj nova, zato se mu življenje lahko korenito spremeni. Službe, ki pokrivajo področje duševnega zdravja, se trudijo v smeri, da bi ljudem s težavami v duševnem zdravju in njihovim bližnjim olajšale vsakdan, jih integrirale v družbo ter v javnosti razbijale mite in stereotipe, ki krožijo o ljudeh s težavami v duševnem zdravju, in jih s tem približale družbi, ki jih odklanja. S svojim magistrskim delom želim ugotoviti, v kolikšni meri strokovni delavci in ljudje s težavami v duševnem zdravju poznajo pojem stigmatizacije oziroma samostigmatizacije in kaj si pod tem pojmom predstavljajo. Ugotoviti želim, kateri so po mnenju intervjuvancev glavni vzroki za stigmatizacijo, ali se uporabniki samostigmatizirajo in na kakšen način lahko strokovno osebje pripomore k zmanjševanju stigme in samostigme ljudi s težavami v duševnem zdravju.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: težave v duševnem zdravju, stigmatizacija, samostigmatizacija, vzroki stigmatizacije
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.09 - Master's Thesis
• Organization: FSD - Faculty of Social Work
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: [N. Vožič]
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: 163 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-167281
• UDC: 364.622
• COBISS.SI-ID: 241415939
• Publication date in RUL: 13.02.2025

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Experiences of stigmatization processes due to mental health problems

Abstract

Stigma is a word that cuts into a person. Especially in the people who experience it and remain alone in its grip. It does not select and does not consider social status, economic status, social situation, religion, ethnicity and gender. It is among us present every day and yet we do not know how to recognise it, or we ignore it. Until it creeps up on us and/or our loved ones. Then we face it, or we run from it, but we have nowhere to run to, because it will always catch up with us. It is present wherever there is a deviation from the accepted and universally recognised norms of society. It is also omnipresent in people with mental health problems. These people often remain alone with their problems, identify with the diagnosis and stigmatise themselves. Nevertheless, the stigmatisation and self-stigmatisation of people with mental health problems is still not talked about much in society and anyone can develop a mental health problem and be stigmatised. The result is a new situation for them that can radically change their lives. Mental health services endeavour to make life easier for people with mental health problems and their loved ones, to integrate them into society and to dispel the myths and stereotypes that circulate in public about people with mental health problems and bring them closer to society, which usually rejects them. In my master's thesis, I want to find out to what extent professionals and people with mental health problems are familiar with the concept of stigmatisation or self-stigmatisation and what they understand by this term. I want to find out what respondents consider to be the main causes of stigmatisation whether users stigmatise themselves and in what ways professionals can contribute to reducing stigmatisation and self-stigmatisation of people with mental health problems.

• Keywords: mental health problems, mental distress, stigma, stigmatisation, self-stigmatisation, causes of stigmatisation