Fighting stigma of mental illness in midsize European countries

Purpose Stigma is the most powerful obstacle to the development of mental health care. Numerous activities aiming to reduce the stigma of mental illness and the consequent negative discrimination of the mentally ill and their families have been conducted in Europe. Descriptions of many of these acti...

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Main Author: Beldie, Alina (author)
Other Authors: Boer, Johan A. den (author), Brain, Cecilia (author), Constant, Eric (author), Figueira, Maria Luisa (author), Filipcic, Igor (author), Gillain, Benoît (author), Jakovljevic, Miro (author), Jarema, Marek (author), Jelenova, Daniela (author), Karamustafalioglu, Oguz (author), Plesnicar, Blanka Kores (author), Kovacsova, Andrea (author), Latalova, Klara (author), Marksteiner, Josef (author), Palha, Filipa (author), Pecenak, Jan (author), Prasko, Jan (author), Prelipceanu, Dan (author), Ringen, Petter Andreas (author), Sartorius, Norman (author), Seifritz, Erich (author), Svestka, Jaromir (author), Tyszkowska, Magdalena (author), Wancata, Johannes (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Mental health
Stigma of mental illness
Anti-stigma activities
Mental disorders in European countries
Psychiatry
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/11665
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/11665
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Summary:Purpose Stigma is the most powerful obstacle to the development of mental health care. Numerous activities aiming to reduce the stigma of mental illness and the consequent negative discrimination of the mentally ill and their families have been conducted in Europe. Descriptions of many of these activities are not easily available, either because there are no publications that describe them, or because descriptions exist only in local languages. This supplement aims to help in overcoming this imbalance by providing a description of anti-stigma activities in 14 countries in Europe regardless of the language in which they were published and regardless whether they were previously published.

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