About
The Culture, Stigma, and Psychosis Lab (CSP) led by Dr. Lawrence Yang is committed to improving mental health worldwide by conducting innovative research focused on the development and implementation of culturally-responsive prevention and intervention strategies that seek to address the challenges in reducing the stigma of marginalized conditions, including HIV and psychosis.
Our Transdisciplinary Team:
- Adopts a multi-level approach to addressing mental illness stigma by examining both macro- (social, cultural, structural) and micro- (pathophysiology, cognition) level factors that exacerbate experiences of stigma
- Explores strategies that counter multiple forms of stigma and promote improvements in health-promoting behaviors (i.e. treatment-seeking and treatment adherence).
- Seeks to produce and disseminate translational research that informs the implementation of these evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts.
Goal
Our ultimate goal is to reduce the barriers that stigma poses in accessing timely care and to evaluate empirical models of mental health care, with the goal of closing the global mental health gap in under-resourced settings. Our research has been funded through NIH, allowing us to engage in numerous projects with the goal of reducing mental illness stigma and discrimination, empowering communities through capacity-building activities, and improving access to evidence-based mental health care in diverse settings.