Public beliefs about and attitudes towards people with mental illness: a review of population studies

MC Angermeyer, S Dietrich - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To provide a review of population‐based attitude research in psychiatry during
the past 15 years. Method: An electronic search using PubMed, Medline, and Academic …

Stigma and mental illness: A review and critique

P HAYWARD & JENIFER A. BRIGHT - Journal of mental health, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
Research on the extent and nature of psychiatric stigma is reviewed, with a goal of offering
insights useful to the practising clinician. Many findings support the view that a label of …

Subjective experiences of stigma. A focus group study of schizophrenic patients, their relatives and mental health professionals

B Schulze, MC Angermeyer - Social science & medicine, 2003 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia has been found to be one of the most stigmatising conditions. To the present,
most research on stigma related to mental illness has drawn conclusions on the adverse …

Stigma of mental illness and ways of diminishing it

P Byrne - Advances in Psychiatric treatment, 2000 - cambridge.org
Stigma is defined as a sign of disgrace or discredit, which sets a person apart from others.
The stigma of mental illness, although more often related to context than to a person's …

Community study of knowledge of and attitude to mental illness in Nigeria

OYE Gureje, VO Lasebikan… - The British Journal of …, 2005 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe improvement of community tolerance of people with mental illness is
important for their integration. Little is known about the knowledge of and attitude to mental …

Community attitudes toward people with schizophrenia

H Stuart, J Arboleda-Florez - The Canadian Journal of …, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: We surveyed public attitudes toward people with schizophrenia as part of a pilot
project for the World Psychiatric Association's Global Campaign to Fight Stigma and …

The role of biological and genetic causal beliefs in the stigmatisation of'mental patients'

JRN Harré - Journal of mental health, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Research indicates that the'mental illness is an illness like any other'approach to
destigmatisation has failed to improve attitudes. This study replicated, with 469 New …

[图书][B] Quality of life and mental health services

K Bridges, P Huxley, H Mohamad, J Oliver - 2005 - taylorfrancis.com
This book is about the lives of patients, about the health and social care services provided to
help them, and about ways of examining the impact these services make on them. Based on …

Reinforcing stereotypes: How the focus on forensic cases in news reporting may influence public attitudes towards the mentally ill

MC Angermeyer, B Schulze - International Journal of law and Psychiatry, 2001 - Elsevier
This paper will discuss the type of images associated with mental illness in the context of
news reporting. Specifically, we will present the results of a content analysis of the tabloid …

The differential effectiveness of psychosocial and biogenetic causal explanations in reducing negative attitudes toward “mental illness”

I Walker, J Read - Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 2002 - Guilford Press
Given the apparent failure of the “mental illness is an illness like any other” approach to
reducing negative stereotypes of people with mental health problems, the differential effects …