Nicotine - Stigma: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| Line 42: | Line 42: | ||
====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. | ||
====2018: [https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/SAJ Substance Abuse] (2024 changing to Substance Use and Addiction Journal)==== | |||
*"Non-Pejorative Language - SAj supports the mission AMERSA which is “to improve health and well-being through interdisciplinary leadership in substance use education, research, clinical care, and policy.” The SAj Editorial Team believes that improving health and well-being requires interdisciplinary leadership regarding the language that we use in our scholarship. We ask authors, reviewers, and readers to carefully and intentionally consider the language used to describe alcohol and other drug use and disorders, the individuals affected by these conditions, and their related behaviours, comorbidities, treatment, and recovery in our publication. Specifically, we make an appeal for the use of language that: | |||
**Respects the worth and dignity of all persons (“people-first language”) | |||
**Focuses on the medical nature of substance use disorders and treatment | |||
**Promotes the recovery process | |||
**Avoids perpetuating negative stereotype biases using slang and idioms1.3.1. Non-Pejorative Language" | |||
<br> | <br> | ||