In addition to providing screening and counseling services, PMHP also trains healthcare providers to destigmatize mental illness in the communities they serve. ❋ Ruth Messinger (2010)
We also need to overcome cultural influences that encourage and destigmatize divorce by making it so easy. ❋ Beverly Willett (2011)
I'm proud and grateful that this film is able to humanize and destigmatize the idea of who a day laborer is, and to free Wilmer's character--and the supporting cast of actual day laborers--from the awful and alienating stereotypes often attached to brown, working class immigrants. ❋ S.J. Main (2012)
We must enact public education programs that destigmatize HIV testing and embed it into the fabric of people's lives. ❋ Perry N Halkitis (2011)
The condom distribution program is part of an ongoing collaboration between Kenya Red Cross, UN Populations Fund and the Government of Kenya in an effort to educate the public about sexual health and destigmatize safe sex practices. ❋ Unknown (2011)
“I would like to see these plays used to destigmatize psychological injury,” he said. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The only way to compensate for this is to financially destigmatize the unequal need and desire of child-bearing women to take time off from paid employment outside the home. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I was also influenced by major memoirs of my "formative" years that helped to destigmatize depression, such as Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted and Elizabeth Wurztel's Prozac Nation. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Less than half of those who need treatment actually get it because, despite genuine efforts to destigmatize mental health problems, the military reflects society at large when it comes to handling psychological issues. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The government should actively encourage private hospitals and other nonprofits to partner with the Veterans Administration (VA) in efforts to destigmatize this disorder, and to make adequate care more widely available in every community across the country. ❋ Robert Morgenthau (2010)
They destigmatize and normalize the experience by explaining PTS as the somatic and neurophysiologic condition it is. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The posters inviting people to a conference announced that at the conference everyone would be encouraged to use expletives. At the conference, when the [conference's] participants began using expletives most people were shocked.
However, using them everyone was able to define and comprehend and [analyze] the problem better, and propose better solutions than if no one had expressed themselves without using expletives.
After the meeting, the participants laughed and began talking among themselves using expletives such as "shit," "bullshit," "fuck," and its many [derivatives].
The most common way expletives are destigmatized is by allowing and encouraging people to in private or public meetings use words which are considered "dirty" or "bad", such "shit" and "fuck".
In what events would it be best to allow people to use of expletives, and to achieve what?
The First [Amendment] is "also" about the right to be despicable, or to be anything.
Expletive Destigmatization means allowing, encouraging, and not penalizing anyone for using, in a private or [public meeting], words considered to be "dirty" or "bad", such "shit" and "fuck". ❋ But For (2019)
[The professor] speech included destigmatized words. Everyone was shocked, but after the meeting most people started to laugh and talk with others using expletives such as "shit" and "fuck". Using some newly destigmatized words the presenter was able to get the attendees to comprehend [the crisis] better, and everyone was able to more effectively [propose] what may turn out to be better solutions. ❋ But For (2019)
