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Research to understand the impact of stigmatization of mental health patients and its impact in providing services is warranted. Reducing mental illness stigma is critical to providing equitable, effective, and compassionate psychiatric care to individuals with mental illness.
Results: Four overarching themes depicting strategies to combat stigma were identified through thematic analysis. They were (1) raising mental health awareness, (2) social contact, (3) advocacy by influential figures or groups, and (4) the legislation of anti-discriminatory laws.
Stigma around mental illness is especially an issue in some diverse racial and ethnic communities, and it can be a major barrier to people from those cultures accessing mental health services. For more information, please see Mental Health Disparities: Diverse Populations.
Mental health stigma refers to negative beliefs people may hold about those with mental illness, which can lead to stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Public awareness and literacy...
Stigma, the prejudice and discrimination attached to mental illness, has been persistent, interfering with help-seeking, recovery, treatment resources, workforce development, and societal productivity in individuals with mental illness.
How We’re Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Health Issues. Shame and shunning make mental illness worse. But new studies suggest that attitudes are changing for the better—and that’s largely due to young people. By Stephen Hinshaw, Jeremy Adam Smith | April 27, 2022.
In this report, we focus on the nature, impact, and consequences of stigma and discrimination and on their eradication. Evidence is now clear from high-income countries (HICs) and is emerging from LMICs that interventions to reduce stigma and discrimination can be delivered effectively.
Stigma and Health publishes peer-reviewed, original research articles that may include tests of hypotheses about the form and impact of stigma, examination of strategies to decrease stigma's effects, and survey research capturing stigma in populations.
Commission on ending stigma and discrimination in mental health. Stigma is a powerful force for social exclusion. In a 2022 survey by the Global Mental Health Peer Network, 80% of more than 400 participants in 45 countries worldwide agreed that “stigma and discrimination can be worse than the impact of the mental health condition itself”. 1 ...
Structural stigma around mental illness disease state refers to the inequitable deprioritisation, devaluation, and othering of mental health and substance misuse health (compared with physical health) within our health-care delivery, governance, knowledge building, and training systems.