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1. language matters! www.peoplewho.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:01:21 -0800 From: Sylvia Caras <[email protected]> Subject: language matters! The quest for ideal, or simply better, language is doomed to fail as such discussions are not, in fact, linguistic, but political. They are about preferred worldviews, forever leaving some people outside. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(18)30040-3/fulltext?elsca1=etoc ... patient and people were the preferred terms, with a total absence of phrases such as mental health problem, service user, and consumer ... It would enhance the quality of care, at no extra financial cost, if everyone engaged in mental health policy and service delivery were to commit to shaping and influencing a culture and standard of communication which diminishes stigma and promotes language that is appropriate, respectful, and empowering http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(18)30042-7/fulltext?elsca1=etoc "It is language that provides the key tool for communicating prejudice interpersonally and cross-generationally." Mass, A and Arcuri, L., *Language and Stereotyping* in Stereotypes and Stereotyping, Macrae et all, eds. 1996, New York: Guilford, p 193. http://peoplewho.org/documents/wordsmatter.htm Powered by LSoft's LISTSERV(R) list management software ------------------------------ End of IRIS Digest - 26 Feb 2018 to 28 Feb 2018 (#2018-18) **********************************************************
