Looking-glass self
Applications in mental health and recovery

The looking-glass self theory has been applied to the field of mental health recovery, particularly in community-based case management for persons with severe mental illness (SMI). Kondrat and Teater (2012) proposed that relationships between mental health consumers and their case managers act as mechanisms of self-change through reflective appraisal processes. Drawing on Charles Horton Cooley’s original theory, they argued that consumers internalize how they believe their case managers perceive them—whether with hope and empowerment or with stigma and limitation.
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