New research published in the Journal of Counseling & Development found a difference in tolerance toward individuals with schizophrenia depending on whether mental health counselors and counselors-in-training received a survey using the term “schizophrenic” or “person with schizophrenia.”
Participants who received the version with the term “schizophrenic” had attitudes that were more authoritarian, more socially restrictive, and less benevolent.
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