Publications

Pescosolido, Bernice A., Carol A. Boyer, and Tait R. Medina. Forthcoming. "The Social Dynamics of Responding to Mental Health Problems: Past, Present, and Future Challenges to Understanding Individuals' Use of Services."  Handbook of Sociology of Mental Health, Second Edition, edited by Carol S. Aneshensel, Jo C. Phelan, and Alex Bierman. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. 

Pescosolido, Bernice, Jack K. Martin, J. Scott Long, Tait R. Medina, Jo Phelan, Bruce G. Link. November 2010. "'A Disease Like Any Other' A Decade of Change in Public Reactions to Schizophrenia, Depression and Alcohol Dependence." American Journal of Psychiatry 167:1321-1330. (paper)

Medina, Tait R. and Ann McCranie. 2010. "Layering Control: Medicalization, Psychopathy, and the Increasing Institutional Management of Social Problems." Pp. 139-158 in Handbook of Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing: A Blueprint for the 21st Century, edited by B.A. Pescosolido, J.K. Martin, J.D. McLeod, and A. Rogers. (paper)

Medina, Tait R., Shawna N. Smith and J. Scott Long. Autumn 2009. "Measurement Models Matter: Implicit Assumptions and Cross-National Research." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 21:333-361.
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Presentations

2011

"Unintended Consequences of Public Campaigns for Mental Health Literacy and Stigma Reduction: A National Study" (with Bernice Pescosolido). Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC.

2010               

"A Disease Like Any Other? A Decade of Change in Public Reactions to Mental Illness" (with Bernice Pescosolido, Jack Martin, J. Scott Long, Bruce Link & Jo Phelan). Summer meeting of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Health (RC15) of the International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, Sweden.

2009               

"Bringing Measurement Back In: Examining Implicit Assumptions of Measurement Models in a Comparative Framework" (with J. Scott Long, Shawna N. Smith & Oren Pizmony-Levy). Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA.

2008               

“Where Do Concepts Fit? Scalar Construction in Cross-National Research” (with J. Scott Long & Shawna N. Smith). International Conference on Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional & Multicultural Contexts (3MC), Berlin, Germany.

2008

“Issues in Understanding Mental Illness and Its Measurement: Global Problems, Local Manifestations and the Issue of Labeling” (with Bernice Pescosolido and Carol A. Boyer). International Conference on Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (3MC), Berlin, Germany.

2008               

“A Decade of Continuity and Change in the Stigma of Mental Illness: Evidence from Two National Surveys” (with Bernice Pescosolido, Jack Martin, J. Scott Long, Bruce Link & Jo Phelan). Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting.

2008               

"Can Neuroscience Erase the Stigma of Mental Illness?” (with Bernice Pescosolido, Jack Martin, J. Scott Long, Bruce Link & Jo Phelan). New England Research Institutes.  

2007               

"The Stigma in Global Context – Mental Health Study (SGC-MHS): Preliminary Findings on Schizophrenia." (with Bernice Pescosolido, Jack Martin & J. Scott Long. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN) Conference, Berlin, Germany.