Tackling implicit and explicit stigma towards voice hearing in clinical psychology students before it enters the workplace: a preliminary brief educational intervention

Abstract

Objective Hearing voices is a highly stigmatised experience, despite being common across clinical and non-clinical populations. The stigma held by healthcare professions of the clinical populations they work with can have a detrimental impact on the recovery trajectory of people with mental illness, with early career professionals and students thought to have among the most negative attitudes.