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Bernice A. Pescosolido's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Masters Sociology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelors Sociology University of Rhode Island

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According to Wikipedia, Bernice A. Pescosolido is an American sociologist, currently a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research at Indiana University, and also a published author. From 1998 to 2006, she was also the Chancellor's Professor of Indiana University. She has also served as Vice-President of the American Sociological Association and its Chair of Sociology of Mental Health and Medical Sociology.

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Public conceptions of mental illness: labels, causes, dangerousness, and social distance. (1999) (1784)
"A disease like any other"? A decade of change in public reactions to schizophrenia, depression, and alcohol dependence. (2010) (1012)
Public conceptions of mental illness in 1950 and 1996: What is mental illness and is it to be feared? (2000) (592)
Beyond Rational Choice: The Social Dynamics of How People Seek Help (1992) (545)
Of Fear and Loathing: The Role of 'Disturbing Behavior,' Labels, and Causal Attributions in Shaping Public Attitudes toward People with Mental Illness (2000) (518)
The public's view of the competence, dangerousness, and need for legal coercion of persons with mental health problems. (1999) (503)
Durkheim, suicide, and religion: toward a network theory of suicide. (1989) (429)
The Stigma Complex. (2015) (397)
How people get into mental health services: stories of choice, coercion and "muddling through" from "first-timers". (1998) (389)
Rethinking theoretical approaches to stigma: a Framework Integrating Normative Influences on Stigma (FINIS). (2008) (381)
The Public Stigma of Mental Illness (2013) (338)
Building a Model to Understand Youth Service Access: The Gateway Provider Model (2004) (320)
Stigma, discrimination, treatment effectiveness, and policy: public views about drug addiction and mental illness. (2014) (309)
Challenges and opportunities in examining and addressing intersectional stigma and health (2019) (307)
The Construction of Fear: Americans' Preferences for Social Distance from Children and Adolescents with Mental Health Problems∗ (2007) (255)
Public knowledge and assessment of child mental health problems: findings from the National Stigma Study-Children. (2008) (251)
Social network activation: the role of health discussion partners in recovery from mental illness. (2015) (245)
The "backbone" of stigma: identifying the global core of public prejudice associated with mental illness. (2013) (241)
Social networks and patterns of use among the poor with mental health problems in Puerto Rico. (1998) (232)
How do people come to use mental health services? Current knowledge and changing perspectives. (1999) (229)
The web of group affiliations revisited : Social life, postmodernism, and sociology (2000) (218)
Of Pride and Prejudice: The Role of Sociology and Social Networks in Integrating the Health Sciences∗ (2006) (199)
Social Causation or Social Construction of Suicide? An Investigation into the Social Organization of Official Rates (1986) (186)
Gender in Twentieth-Century Children’s Books (2011) (179)
Portraying mental illness and drug addiction as treatable health conditions: effects of a randomized experiment on stigma and discrimination. (2015) (178)
Egocentric Network Analysis: Foundations, Methods, and Models (2018) (169)
Stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs about treatment and psychiatric medications for children with mental illness. (2007) (162)
Pandemic precarity: COVID-19 is exposing and exacerbating inequalities in the American heartland (2021) (160)
The Sociology of Suicide (2011) (157)
Social Network Dynamics and Biographical Disruption: The Case of “First-Timers” with Mental Illness1 (2012) (150)
Functional specificity in discussion networks: The influence of general and problem-specific networks on health outcomes (2010) (146)
Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing (2011) (137)
Responses to nervous breakdowns in America over a 40-year period. Mental health policy implications. (2000) (129)
Public knowledge, beliefs, and treatment preferences concerning attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. (2007) (122)
THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF RELIGIOUS INTEGRATION AND SUICIDE (1990) (120)
Culture and conflict : The portrayal of Blacks in U.S. children's picture books through the mid- and late-twentieth century (1997) (111)
Complementary and alternative medicine : challenge and change (2000) (110)
The profession of medicine and the public: examining Americans' changing confidence in physician authority from the beginning of the 'health care crisis' to the era of health care reform. (2001) (106)
Health, illness, and healing in an uncertain era: challenges from and for medical sociology. (1995) (106)
Perceived dangerousness of children with mental health problems and support for coerced treatment. (2007) (105)
AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD AND WILLINGNESS TO USE PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATIONS (2003) (92)
Mental Health, Social Mirror (2008) (92)
The role of social networks in health, illness, disease and healing: the accepting present, the forgotten past, and the dangerous potential for a complacent future (2002) (92)
Under the Influence of Genetics: How Transdisciplinarity Leads Us to Rethink Social Pathways to Illness1 (2008) (89)
Comparison of public attributions, attitudes, and stigma in regard to depression among children and adults. (2007) (89)
From Nan Lin, “Building a Network Theory of Social Capital” (2021) (81)
The social worlds of higher education : handbook for teaching in a new century (1999) (80)
The view from two worlds: The convergence of social network reports between mental health clients and their ties. (2004) (71)
Help seeking for mental health care among poor Puerto Ricans: problem recognition, service use, and type of provider. (1998) (71)
MIGRATION, MEDICAL CARE PREFERENCES AND THE LAY REFERRAL SYSTEM: A NETWORK THEORY OF ROLE ASSIMILATION* (1986) (70)
Public Attitudes toward the Use of Psychiatric Medications for Children∗ (2004) (67)
Communication Strategies to Counter Stigma and Improve Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder Policy. (2017) (66)
Countries and Cultural Differences in the Stigma of Mental Illness: The East–West Divide (2020) (65)
Similar Pressures, Different Contexts: Public Attitudes toward Government Intervention for Health Care in 21 Nations∗ (2008) (63)
Culture, children, and mental health treatment: special section on the national stigma study-children. (2007) (62)
Constructing illness: how the public in eight Western nations respond to a clinical description of "schizophrenia". (2011) (59)
Evolving Public Views On The Likelihood Of Violence From People With Mental Illness: Stigma And Its Consequences. (2019) (59)
Culture, Race/Ethnicity and Disparities: Fleshing Out the Socio-Cultural Framework for Health Services Disparities (2011) (56)
Are African Americans Really Less Willing to Use Health Care (2005) (55)
Drawing the Line: The Cultural Cartography of Utilization Recommendations for Mental Health Problems∗ (2009) (53)
GENDER REPRESENTATION IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: 1900-1984 (1989) (53)
The Sociology of Social Networks (2007) (49)
Understanding the public’s profile of mental health literacy in China: a nationwide study (2019) (49)
Case managers' perspectives on critical ingredients of assertive community treatment and on its implementation. (2003) (48)
Organizing the Sociological Landscape for the Next Decades of Health and Health Care Research: The Network Episode Model III-R as Cartographic Subfield Guide (2011) (48)
Trends in Public Stigma of Mental Illness in the US, 1996-2018. (2021) (44)
The Social Dynamics of Responding to Mental Health Problems (2013) (41)
A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Understanding the Context and Dynamic Social Processes of Mental Health Treatment (2009) (38)
TEACHING MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY THROUGH FILM: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICAL TOOLS* (1990) (34)
Communicating about Mental Illness and Violence: Balancing Stigma and Increased Support for Services. (2018) (33)
Stigma and the Sociological Enterprise (2007) (33)
The Cultural Turn in Sociology: Can It Help Us Resolve an Age-Old Problem in Understanding Decision Making for Health Care? (2010) (33)
The Structure of American Medical Practice, 1875-1941. (1983) (32)
The Role of Social Networks in the Lives of Persons with Disabilities (2001) (32)
The Social Roots of Suicide: Theorizing How the External Social World Matters to Suicide and Suicide Prevention (2021) (31)
Gender-Specific Gene–Environment Interaction in Alcohol Dependence: The Impact of Daily Life Events and GABRA2 (2013) (31)
“Sorry, I forgot”: the role of recall error in longitudinal personal network studies (2002) (30)
Cross‐Cultural Aspects of the Stigma of Mental Illness (2008) (30)
Mental Illness Careers in an Era of Change (2007) (30)
The closing of central state hospital: Long-term outcomes for persons with severe mental illness (1999) (29)
The Status of Teacher Training in U.S. and Canadian Sociology Departments. (1995) (28)
The Unique Nature of Public Stigma toward Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use and Dependence: A National Study. (2020) (27)
Professional dominance and the limits of erosion (2006) (24)
Cultural Authority and the Sovereignty of American Medicine: The Role of Networks, Class, and Community (2004) (23)
Social networks and health (2002) (23)
The Sociology of the Professions and the Profession of Sociology: Professional Responsibility, Teaching, and Graduate Training. (1991) (21)
Closing of a state hospital: An overview and framework for a case study (1999) (20)
Through the Looking Glass: The Fortunes of the Sociology of Mental Health (2007) (19)
The Theory of Industrial Society and Cultural Schemata: Does the “Cultural Myth of Stigma” Underlie the WHO Schizophrenia Paradox?1 (2015) (19)
Medical care in the welfare state: a cross-national study of public evaluations. (1985) (19)
Beyond dichotomies: confronting the complexity of how and why individuals come or do not come to mental health care (2013) (19)
The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness (2010) (19)
The public's opinions of physicians: do perceived choice and exercised choice matter? (2003) (17)
The effects of hospital closure on mental health workers: An overview of employment, mental and physical health, and attitudinal outcomes (1999) (14)
“Stakeholder” attitudes over time toward the closing of a state hospital (1999) (14)
CAN WE CONCEPTUALIZE AND MEASURE CONTINUITY OF CARE IN INDIVIDUAL EPISODES? THE CASE OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN PUERTO RICO* (1997) (14)
At the intersection of lay and professional social networks: how community ties shape perceptions of mental health treatment providers (2016) (13)
The changing hopes, worries, and community supports of individuals moving from a closing long-term care facility (1999) (13)
Empowering the Next Generation to End Stigma By Starting the Conversation: Bring Change to Mind and the College Toolbox Project. (2020) (13)
Pathways to care: narratives of American Indian adolescents entering substance abuse treatment. (2012) (12)
The social symbiome framework: Linking genes-to-global cultures in public health using network science (2016) (11)
A Socio-cultural Framework for Health Services Disparities: Illustrating the Case of Mental Health and Substance Abuse (2009) (10)
Cross-level sociodemographic homogeneity alters individual risk for completed suicide (2020) (10)
Icelandic inclusion, German hesitation and American fear: A cross-cultural comparison of mental-health stigma and the media (2019) (10)
The American Health Care System: Beginning the Twenty‐First Century with High Risk, Major Challenges, and Great Opportunities (2009) (9)
Erving Goffman: The Moral Career of Stigma and Mental Illness (2015) (8)
Mental health care and the cultural toolboxes of the present-day Japanese population: Examining suggested patterns of care and their correlates. (2019) (8)
Getting Underneath the Power of “Contact”: Revisiting the Fundamental Lever of Stigma as a Social Network Phenomenon (2018) (8)
Developing a Multiple Caregiver Group for Caregivers of Adolescents With Disruptive Behaviors. (2017) (7)
Taking “The Promise” Seriously: Medical Sociology’s Role in Health, Illness, and Healing in a Time of Social Change (2010) (7)
Living in Networks: The Dynamics of Social Relations (2023) (7)
Response to Torrey Letter (2011) (6)
Theories and the Rise and Fall of the Medical Profession (2013) (6)
The Converging Landscape of Higher Education (2008) (6)
Interactions between patients' experiences in mental health treatment and lay social network attitudes toward doctors in recovery from mental illness (2017) (6)
Social Network Influence in Mental Health and Illness, Service Use and Settings, and Treatment Outcomes (2011) (5)
Confronting Sociological Theory with Data: Regression Analysis, Goodman's Log-Linear Models and Comparative Research (1983) (5)
The global use of diverse medical systems. (2019) (5)
The structure and substance of preparing sociologists : The nature of qualifying examinations in graduate education (2001) (5)
Pilot Randomized Trial of a Family Management Efficacy Intervention for Caregivers of African American Adolescents with Disruptive Behaviors (2018) (5)
The Self-Stigma of Psychiatric Patients: Implications for Identities, Emotions, and the Life Course (2016) (4)
The Beginning of the End? Deploying Rigorous Research in Real-World Settings to Reduce Stigma. (2016) (4)
Society and the balance of professional dominance and patient autonomy in medical care. (1994) (4)
Responses to the Onset of Mental Health Problems: Issues and Findings from Research on Illness Behaviour and the Use of Health Services (2010) (4)
Functional Status, Mood State, and Physical Activity Among Women With Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome (2022) (4)
A fresh look at recovery. (2008) (4)
Mental Illness and Stigma (2014) (3)
The Unique Nature of Public Stigma Toward Opioid Use Disorders: A National Study (2019) (3)
Comprar Mental Health, Social Mirror | Avison, William R. | 9780387756998 | Springer (2007) (3)
Ethnicity, race and mental health (2011) (3)
11. Linking the Social Brain to the Social World through Network Connections (2015) (3)
Titles and Central Characters Gender in Twentieth-Century Children's Books : Patterns of Disparity in (2011) (2)
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE IN OLDER ADULTS WITH NORMAL COGNITION, MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, AND MILD ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE (2017) (2)
Examining Multi-Level Correlates of Suicide by Merging NVDRS and ACS Data. (2017) (2)
Children, Culture and Mental Illness: Public Knowledge and Stigma toward Childhood Problems (2011) (2)
New ethical challenges to mental health services research in the era of community-based care (2008) (2)
Labeling, causal attributions, and social network ties to people with mental illness (2021) (2)
Drawing the Line: The Cultural Cartography of Utilization Preferences for Mental Health Problems (2006) (1)
Public Stigma and Personal Networks: Confronting the Limitations of Unidimensional Measures of Social Contact (2022) (1)
Introduction to the Special Issue on Ego Networks (2020) (1)
Sociocentric and Egocentric Approaches to Networks (2018) (1)
Health and Social Inequality (2015) (1)
Unexamined discourse: The outcomes movement as a shift from internal medical assessment to health communication (2009) (1)
Stigma as a Mental Health Policy Controversy: Positions, Options, and Strategies for Change (2019) (1)
Ego Network Composition and Structure (with Ann McCranie) (2018) (1)
Professions and the Public (2014) (1)
Reflections on Teaching: North Central Sociological Association 2011 John F. Schnabel Lecture: Roller Coasters and Revolutions: Themes in the Reflections of First-Time Teachers (2011) (1)
Selfie Videos to Reduce Stigma and Increase Treatment Seeking Among Youths: Two Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trials. (2022) (1)
Relating Egocentric and Sociocentric Network Analysis (2018) (1)
Pilot Randomized Trial of a Family Management Efficacy Intervention for Caregivers of African American Adolescents with Disruptive Behaviors (2018) (0)
Special Readers for Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior, Volume 25, 1995. (1995) (0)
The"Backbone"ofStigma:IdentifyingtheGlobalCore ofPublicPrejudiceAssociatedWithMentalIllness (2013) (0)
The Journal of Mental Health would like to thank the following reviewers that have contributed to the 2019 issues (2019) (0)
Lessons Learned From Stigma Research with Individuals, Communities and Delivery Systems: How Beliefs about Mental Illness Can Inform Prevention, Policy and Practice (2014) (0)
“Cultural Toolboxes” of Mental Health Care: Depression and Public Construction of the Set of Appropriate Responses in 17 Countries (2014) (0)
Theoretical and Methodological Foundations (2018) (0)
Who has mental health problems? Comparing individual, social and psychiatric constructions of mental health. (2023) (0)
Social pathways to care: how community-based network ties shape the health care response of individuals with mental health problems (2023) (0)
Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization. By George Weisz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxx+359. $29.95. (2008) (0)
From Barry Wellman and Scot Wortley, “Different Strokes from Different Folks” (2021) (0)
From Scott L. Feld, “The Focused Organization of Social Ties” (2021) (0)
Risk adjustment in mental health (2005) (0)
Raymond S. Duff y August B. Hoilingshead, Sickness and Society (Nueva York: Harper and Row, 1968), 390 PP. (1977) (0)
Calls/Appels (1993) (0)
Social Connectedness in Health, Morbidity and Mortality, and Health Care - The Contributions, Limits and Further Potential of Health and Retirement Study (2011) (0)
Social Networks, Aging and Dementia: An Introduction to the Scientific Foundations Underlying Network Science, IUNI, and the Collaborative Dementia Project (2015) (0)
A social network analysis of the role of social contact in mental illness stigma using the 2018 General Social Survey (2020) (0)
Social Science Approaches to Health and Healing Systems (SAHS) (2007) (0)
The Social Symbiome Framework (2016) (0)
Social Networks Analysis: Theory and Methods (2005) (0)
Analyzing Ego Networks (2018) (0)
Confronting How People Cope with Crisis: From the Social Organization Strategy Framework to the Network Episode Model to the Network Embedded Symbiome (2021) (0)
Mass Media and Stigma: How Portrayals of Mental Illness Impact Social Stigma (2008) (0)
Index of Reviews by Category (2019) (0)
The Global Schizophrenia Paradox: Stigma and Levels of Development (2012) (0)
The Effects of Trait Motivational Reactivity and Personal Experiences on Processing Messages about Mental Illness (2011) (0)
The Welfare State Matters: Integrating Welfare State Theories into Medical Sociology (2011) (0)
Mental health, Institutions and Recovery in Europe (2018) (0)
Contributors (2008) (0)
Gender-Specific Gene–Environment Interaction in Alcohol Dependence: The Impact of Daily Life Events and GABRA2 (2013) (0)
Functional Status, Mood State, and Physical Activity Among Women With Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome (2022) (0)
Student Mental Health Stigma Measure (2020) (0)
Domains and Domain Shifts in the Study of the Outcomes of Mental Illness (2008) (0)
Raymond S. Duff y Augut B. Hollingshead. "Sickness and Society" (1977) (0)
Modeling Ego Network Dynamics (2018) (0)
Stepping Back To Step Forward: Launching the Second Resurgence In Researching and Reducing the Stigma Of Mental Illness (2015) (0)

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