People with mental illness are often painfully familiar with overt prejudice or more subtle forms of mistreatment. The stigma and discrimination associated with their disorders can have effects in several areas of life: in social interactions, in work and healthcare settings, in the legal system and the media. Many withdraw due to shame and do not seek help. In turn, stigma can prove to be a more serious problem than the disorder itself. Yet too little is done to reduce stigma and its impact.
The Stigma of Mental Illness: Strategies Against Discrimination and Social Exclusion offers up the knowledge necessary to understand and fight against stigma and discrimination. It will be invaluable to all health professionals, social workers, healthcare managers and policy makers with an involvement or interest in mental illness.
1. 1. Introduction - p. xi 2. 2. Historical and social contexts - p. 12 3. 3. What is stigma? - p. 28 4. 4. Consequences of stigma - p. 50 5. 5. People with various mental disorders and their relatives - p. 60 6. 5.1 People with mental illness - p. 60 7. 5.2 People with experience of suicidality - p. 80 8. 5.3 Young people at risk of psychosis or with first episode of psychosis - p. 84 9. 5.4 People with specific mental disorders - p. 86 10. 5.5 People with multiple stigmatised identities - p. 103 11. 5.6 Families and relatives - p. 104 12. 5.7 Children and adolescents - p. 106 13. 5.8 Migrants and refugees - p. 109 14. 6. Personal perspectives - p. 112 15. 7. Stigma in different sectors of society - p. 125 16. 7.1 Work - p. 125 17. 7.2 Housing and homelessness - p. 133 18. 7.3 Healthcare system - p. 137 19. 7.4 The media - p. 157 20. 7.5 Stigma and the law - p. 168 21. 8. Reduction of public stigma - p. 174 22. 9. Strategies against self-stigma - p. 190 23. 10. Reduction of stigma as a barrier to help-seeking - p. 197 24. 11. Reducing structural discrimination - p. 199 25. 12. Nationwide antistigma campaigns - p. 201 26. 13. Stigma and discrimination related to mental illness in low- and middle-income countries - p. 204 27. 14. Looking back and ahead - p. 224 28. Glossary - p. 229 29. References - p. 231 30. Internet addresses - p. 265 31. Index - p. 267
People with mental illness are often painfully familiar with overt prejudice or more subtle forms of mistreatment. The stigma and discrimination associated with their disorders can have effects in several areas of life: in social interactions, in work and healthcare settings, in the legal system and the media. Many withdraw due to shame and do not seek help. In turn, stigma can prove to be a more serious problem than the disorder itself. Yet too little is done to reduce stigma and its impact.
The Stigma of Mental Illness: Strategies Against Discrimination and Social Exclusion offers up the knowledge necessary to understand and fight against stigma and discrimination. It will be invaluable to all health professionals, social workers, healthcare managers and policy makers with an involvement or interest in mental illness.
1. 1. Introduction - p. xi 2. 2. Historical and social contexts - p. 12 3. 3. What is stigma? - p. 28 4. 4. Consequences of stigma - p. 50 5. 5. People with various mental disorders and their relatives - p. 60 6. 5.1 People with mental illness - p. 60 7. 5.2 People with experience of suicidality - p. 80 8. 5.3 Young people at risk of psychosis or with first episode of psychosis - p. 84 9. 5.4 People with specific mental disorders - p. 86 10. 5.5 People with multiple stigmatised identities - p. 103 11. 5.6 Families and relatives - p. 104 12. 5.7 Children and adolescents - p. 106 13. 5.8 Migrants and refugees - p. 109 14. 6. Personal perspectives - p. 112 15. 7. Stigma in different sectors of society - p. 125 16. 7.1 Work - p. 125 17. 7.2 Housing and homelessness - p. 133 18. 7.3 Healthcare system - p. 137 19. 7.4 The media - p. 157 20. 7.5 Stigma and the law - p. 168 21. 8. Reduction of public stigma - p. 174 22. 9. Strategies against self-stigma - p. 190 23. 10. Reduction of stigma as a barrier to help-seeking - p. 197 24. 11. Reducing structural discrimination - p. 199 25. 12. Nationwide antistigma campaigns - p. 201 26. 13. Stigma and discrimination related to mental illness in low- and middle-income countries - p. 204 27. 14. Looking back and ahead - p. 224 28. Glossary - p. 229 29. References - p. 231 30. Internet addresses - p. 265 31. Index - p. 267
