You Are Working with Maria, a 29-Year-Old Who Was Diagnosed

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Multiple Choice

You are working with Maria, a 29-year-old who was diagnosed with schizophrenia 10 years ago. She has been working hard at her recovery and her current goal is to seek employment. She wants to work at the local day-care center, but when agencies find out she has a mental illness they reject her application because they are fearful she will hurt the children. Maria has tried to get some of her family members to advocate for her but they are hesitant and actually support initiatives to toughen the laws to prevent people with mental illness from working in the human services field. She finds this demoralizing and begins to experience some signs of depression but quickly engages with her peer support specialist to overcome these feelings and continue working toward her goal. Drawing from your knowledge of public stigma theory, you recognize this scenario best represents which type of stigma?

• A) Stigma by association
• B) Structural stigma
• C) Self-stigma
• D) Family stigma

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