Summit

2024 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2024

Internalized Mental Health Stigma Predicts Worsening Mental Health during COVID-19 Among Brazilian Youth at High Risk of Psychopathology

Virtual · October 2024

Posters · Clinical Science

  • Sarah Borges
    Harvard College
  • Mark Hatzenbuehler
    Harvard University

Abstract

We will examine how internalized mental health stigma impacted the mental health of 1,801 Brazilian youth at high-risk of psychopathology from pre- to during COVID-19. Higher stigma is expected to predict worsening mental health problems and mental well-being, mediated by reduced help-seeking and moderated by self-identification with mental illness.

Racism and Discrimination

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