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Amerigo Farina

Amerigo Farina

Title: Professor Emeritus and Associate Dept. Head & Coordinator of Graduate Studies


Departmental Program: Clinical

E-mail: Amerigo.Farina@uconn.edu

Home e-mail: amerigo.farina@sbcglobal.net

Office Phone: (860) 486-3517

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail or Telephone

Research Interests:

  • The stigma of mental disorder
  • Social competence

Representative Publications:

  • Farina, A., Fischer, E. H., Boudreau, L. A., & Belt, W. E. (1996). Mode of target presentation in measuring the stigma of mental disorders. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26, 2147-2156.
  • Mehta, S., & Farina, A. (1997). Is being "sick" really better? The effect of the disease view of mental disorder on stigma. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 16, 405-419.
  • Farina, A. (1998). Stigma. In K. T. Mueser and N. Tarrier (Eds.), Handbook of social functioning in schizophrenia. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, pp. 247-279.
  • Farina, A. (2000). The few gains and many losses for those stigmatized by psychiatric disorders. In J. H. Harvey & E. D. Miller (Eds.), Loss and Trauma (pp. 183-207). Philadelphia, Brunner-Routledge.