Construction and preliminary evidence of validity of the Scale of Perceived Threat from the Mentally Ill

Abstract The perception that mental patients represent a threat may support attitudes and behaviours of social exclusion and a contrary position to the precepts of the Psychiatric Reform. In this sense, this article has the objective of elaborating the Scale of Perceived Threat from the Mentally Ill...

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Main Authors: Silvana Carneiro MACIEL, Luana Elayne Cunha de SOUZA, Tiago Jessé Souza de LIMA, Patrícia Fonseca de SOUSA, Cícero Roberto PEREIRA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas
Series:Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-166X2020000100704&lng=en&tlng=en