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  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Patrick W. Corrigan is affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and health professions, with a significant body of work in social psychology, clinical psychology, and general health professions. Their contributions also extend to psychiatry and mental health, as well as broader health-related fields.

The main topics covered in their research include mental health treatment and access, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health and patient involvement, religion, spirituality, and psychology, suicide and self-harm studies, family caregiving in mental illness, and schizophrenia research and treatment.

Recent published papers by Corrigan highlight several areas of interest:

  • The stigma of alcohol-related liver disease and its impact on healthcare, 2022, Journal of Hepatology
  • Internalization process of stigma of people with mental illness across cultures: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach, 2021, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Vicarious Stigma and Self-Stigma Experienced by Parents of Children with Mental Health and/or Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2021, Community Mental Health Journal
  • Community-based participatory research (CBPR), stigma, and health., 2020, Stigma and Health
  • Factors predicting help seeking for mental illness among college students, 2020, Journal of Mental Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Corrigan include Lindsay Sheehan, Sang Qin, Georg Schomerus, Sai Snigdha Talluri, and Nicolas Rüsch.

The most common publication venues for this scientist are Stigma and Health, Psychiatric Services, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, and International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.

Patrick W. Corrigan was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2000.

Best Publications

  • How stigma interferes with mental health care.

    Patrick W. Corrigan

  • Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma.

    Patrick W. Corrigan;David L. Penn

  • The Paradox of Self-Stigma and Mental Illness

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Amy C. Watson

  • Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illness.

    Patrick W Corrigan;Amy C Watson

  • Challenging the Public Stigma of Mental Illness: A Meta-Analysis of Outcome Studies

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Scott B. Morris;Patrick J. Michaels;Jennifer Drothy Rafacz;Jennifer Drothy Rafacz

  • Mental illness stigma: concepts, consequences, and initiatives to reduce stigma.

    Nicolas Rüsch;Matthias C. Angermeyer;Patrick W. Corrigan

  • The Impact of Mental Illness Stigma on Seeking and Participating in Mental Health Care

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Benjamin G. Druss;Deborah A. Perlick

  • An attribution model of public discrimination towards persons with mental illness

    Patrick Corrigan;Fred E Markowitz;Amy Watson;David Rowan

  • The Self–Stigma of Mental Illness: Implications for Self–Esteem and Self–Efficacy

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Amy C. Watson;Leah Barr

  • Self-stigma and the "why try" effect: impact on life goals and evidence-based practices.

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Jonathon E. Larson;Nicolas Rüsch

  • On the self-stigma of mental illness: stages, disclosure, and strategies for change.

    Patrick W Corrigan;Deepa Rao

  • Evolution of public attitudes about mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    G. Schomerus;C. Schwahn;A. Holzinger;P. W. Corrigan

  • Three Strategies for Changing Attributions about Severe Mental Illness

    Patrick W. Corrigan;L. Philip River;Robert K. Lundin;David L. Penn

  • Mental health stigma as social attribution: Implications for research methods and attitude change.

    Patrick W. Corrigan

  • Prejudice, Social Distance, and Familiarity with Mental Illness

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Annette Backs Edwards;Amy Green;Sarah Lickey Diwan

  • Structural Levels of Mental Illness Stigma and Discrimination

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Fred E. Markowitz;Amy C. Watson

  • Illness management and recovery: a review of the research.

    Kim T. Mueser;Patrick W. Corrigan;David W. Hilton;Beth Tanzman

  • Challenging Two Mental Illness Stigmas: Personal Responsibility and Dangerousness

    Patrick W. Corrigan;David Rowan;Amy Green;Robert Lundin

  • Social cognition in schizophrenia

    Penn Dl;Corrigan Pw;Bentall Rp;Racenstein Jm

  • Self-Stigma in People With Mental Illness

    Amy C. Watson;Patrick Corrigan;Jonathon E. Larson;Molly Sells

Frequent Co-Authors

Amy C. Watson
Amy C. Watson University of Illinois at Chicago
David L. Penn
David L. Penn University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Galen V. Bodenhausen
Galen V. Bodenhausen Northwestern University
Larry Davidson
Larry Davidson Yale University
Michael F. Green
Michael F. Green University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Paul Liberman
Robert Paul Liberman University of California, Los Angeles
Martin Driessen
Martin Driessen Bielefeld University
Susanne Walitza
Susanne Walitza University of Zurich
Klaus Lieb
Klaus Lieb Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Gerd Bohner
Gerd Bohner Bielefeld University

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