Does Mental Illness Stigma Contribute to Adolescent Standardized Patients’ Discomfort With Simulations of Mental Illness and Adverse Psychosocial Experiences?

ObjectiveAdolescent mental illness stigma-related factors may contribute to adolescent standardized patients’ (ASP) discomfort with simulations of psychiatric conditions/adverse psychosocial experiences. Paradoxically, however, ASP involvement may provide a stigma-reduction strategy. This article reports an investigation of this hypothetical association between simulation discomfort and mental illness stigma.MethodsASPs were randomly assigned …