[This is the second in a series that examines what stigma looks like and how it damages those who receive it.] A major goal of mental health policy in the United States is to reduce barriers to service utilization, Psychiatric Services, a monthly publication of the American Psychiatric Association. The April, 2008 article states that the policy focus has been motivated by research that documenting that most mental health disorders go untreated, or are untreated only after extensive delays, while effective treatments exist for the majority of these disorders. Researchers have ...