"It feels like this massive weight" : the impact of stigma on health care experiences as described by people with Borderline Personality Disorder
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Social Work, School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Wolchok, Emma Justine
issued: 2014-09-15T15:16:01Z
issued: 2014
related degree: Master of Social Work - MSW
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: People with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) often experience numerous mental and physical health issues, and consequently interact with health care professionals on a regular basis. There is a pervasive negative attitude towards people with BPD amongst health care professionals, as people with BPD are perceived as attention seeking, manipulative, hostile, and willfully resistant to treatment. This stigma influences the way people with BPD are treated by professionals. The current body of literature about the experiences of people with BPD in the health care system focuses exclusively on the mental health care system. The research reviewed in this study sought to answer the question: How do people with BPD describe interactions with health care professionals when accessing care for physical health issues? This paper reports findings from interviews with five people living with BPD. Although these participants did not describe unpleasant or stigmatizing experiences in health care specifically, they reported feeling stigmatized in general due to their diagnosis, and these experiences of stigma influenced the way they access health care. The data gathered from these participants have several implications for service delivery to people with BPD.
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note: “IT FEELS LIKE THIS MASSIVE WEIGHT”: THE IMPACT OF STIGMA ON HEALTH CARE EXPERIENCES AS DESCRIBED BY PEOPLE WITH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER by EMMA JUSTINE WOLCHOK BSW, The University of British Columbia, 2008 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) September 2014  Emma Justine Wolchok, 2014 ii Abstract People with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) often experience numerous mental and physical health issues, and consequently interact with health care professionals on a regular basis. There is a pervasive negative attitude towards people with BPD amongst health care professionals, as people with BPD are perceived as attention seeking, manipulative, hostile, and willfully resistant to treatment. This stigma influences the way people with BPD are treated by professionals. The current body of literature about the experiences of people with BPD in the health care system focuses exclusively on the mental health care system. The research reviewed in this study sought to answer the question: How do people with BPD describe interactions with health care professionals when accessing care for physical health issues? This paper reports findings from interviews with five people living with BPD. Although these participants did not describe unpleasant or stigmatizing experiences in health care specifically, they reported feeling stigmatized in general due to their diagnosis, and these experiences of stigma influenced the way they access health care. The data gathered from these participants have several implications for service delivery to people with BPD. iii Preface This thesis is an original intellectual product of the author, Emma Wolchok. The findings reported in this document are covered by the UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board (certificate number H13-03266). iv Table of Contents Abstract ..............…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2014-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0135554
language: eng
degree discipline: Social Work
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50365