Background: A growing gap has emerged between people with mental illness and health
care professionals, which in recent years has been successfully closed through the adoption …

Public stigma is a pervasive barrier that prevents many individuals in the US from engaging
in mental health care. This systematic literature review aims to:(1) evaluate methods used to …

Purpose Service user involvement in instrument development is increasingly recognised as
important, but is often not done and seldom reported. This has adverse implications for the …

Treatments have been developed and tested to successfully reduce the symptoms and
disabilities of many mental illnesses. Unfortunately, people distressed by these illnesses …

This review examines the history and contemporary landscape of school mental health,
describing evidence that schools are an essential component of the system of child and …

Family psychoeducation as a treatment for schizophrenia was developed 40 years ago
almost simultaneously and independently by investigators who at the time were not family …

Objective: Collaborative chronic care models (CCMs) improve outcome in chronic medical
illnesses and depression treated in primary care settings. The effect of such models across …

Mental illness stigma has been identified by national policy makers as an important barrier
to help seeking for mental health. Using a random sample of 5,555 students from a diverse …

Many people who would benefit from mental health services opt not to pursue them or fail to
fully participate once they have begun. One of the reasons for this disconnect is stigma; …

Public stigma robs people with mental illnesses from rightful opportunities related to work
and other important life goals. Advocates have developed anti-stigma programs meant to …