DENVER — Mental health disability identity relies on factors such as health prioritization, willingness for disclosure and need for integration, a speaker said at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America annual conference.
“The degree to which people identify with a mental health diagnosis is an understudied section of the field. We are seeking to fill that gap,” Emily Badillo-Winard, BA, of the department of psychology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, said in a presentation.
Badillo-Winard and research partner Kari Eddington, PhD, sought to determine