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Addressing Nursing Students’ Stigmatizing Beliefs Toward Mental Illness
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 10/26/09

Webster DA – The purpose of this article is to describe how a creative reflective learning project was used to encourage nursing students to express feelings about working with clients with mental illness, address stigma, and facilitate development of empathy. While working with a client with mental illness over a 4–week period, students maintained a reflective journal exploring their assumptions about mental illness. In addition, students created an individual project to depict their understanding of what it was like for their client to live with a mental illness. Examples of students’ reflections and descriptions of their projects are presented to demonstrate how this experience affected students’ views of mental illness.

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