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====2018: [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1079063218783798 ATSA - Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse]==== | ====2018: [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1079063218783798 ATSA - Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse]==== | ||
*Authors are encouraged to be thoughtful about the connotations of language used in their manuscripts to describe persons or groups. Person-first language (e.g., “persons with sexual offense histories”, “individual who has been adjudicated for…”, “child/adolescent with sexual behavior problems”) is generally preferred because it is often more accurate and less pejorative than terms like “sex offender”. Terms like “sex offender” imply an ongoing tendency to commit sex offenses, which is inaccurate for many persons who have been convicted for sex offenses given current sexual recidivism base rates. Similarly, the term suggests a homogeneous group defined and stigmatized on the basis of criminal behaviors that may have taken place infrequently or many years in the past. | *Authors are encouraged to be thoughtful about the connotations of language used in their manuscripts to describe persons or groups. Person-first language (e.g., “persons with sexual offense histories”, “individual who has been adjudicated for…”, “child/adolescent with sexual behavior problems”) is generally preferred because it is often more accurate and less pejorative than terms like “sex offender”. Terms like “sex offender” imply an ongoing tendency to commit sex offenses, which is inaccurate for many persons who have been convicted for sex offenses given current sexual recidivism base rates. Similarly, the term suggests a homogeneous group defined and stigmatized on the basis of criminal behaviors that may have taken place infrequently or many years in the past. | ||
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=='''Reccomendations: PWS (People Who Smoke)'''== | |||
===CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: [https://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/Preferred_Terms.html Preferred Terms for Select Population Groups & Communities]=== | |||
*'''Instead of this… "Smokers," Try this... "People who smoke" ''' | |||
===2022: [https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/survey/tobacco-inequities-2022.pdf Addressing New York City’s Smoking Inequities]=== | |||
*Use person-first language (“person who smokes” not “smoker”). | |||
===2021: [https://www.changelabsolutions.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/Justice-in-the-Air-Framing-Tobacco-Related-Health-Disparities_FINAL_20220307A.pdf Justice In The Air: Framing Tobacco-Related Health Disparities A FrameWorks Strategic Brief ]=== | |||
*Use person-first language. Avoid labeling people as “smokers” or “tobacco users.” Instead, start with people, then add any necessary qualifiers: people who smoke, people with a dependence on nicotine. | |||
===2021: ACS/ACS CAN: [https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/online-documents/en/pdf/flyers/health_equity_inclusive_language_writing_guide.pdf Inclusive Language and Writing Guide]=== | |||
*Terms to avoid: smokers/former smokers | |||
**Suggested Replacement: people who smoke/used to smoke/ quit smoking | |||
**Rationale: removes stigmatizing or shaming/blaming language and keeps people first | |||
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=='''Publication Policies - Language (General)'''== | =='''Publication Policies - Language (General)'''== | ||
===2023: [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.16302 How ''Addiction'' handles disagreements over potentially harmful terminology]=== | ===2023: [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.16302 How ''Addiction'' handles disagreements over potentially harmful terminology]=== | ||
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