Although the last decade has seen a proliferation of research on mental illness stigma, lack
of consistency and clarity in both the conceptualization and measurement of mental illness …

This Review considers the evidence for mental-health-related stigma in health-care and
mental-health-care settings. Do mental-health-care and other health-care professionals …

British Psychology Society Textbook of the Year 2020 Why do people who are more socially
connected live longer and have better health than those who are socially isolated? Why are …

Stigma negatively affects individuals with cognitive impairment and dementia. This literature
review examined the past decade (January 2004 to December 2015) of world-wide research …

Objective Public stigma and discrimination have pernicious effects on the lives of people
with serious mental illnesses. Given a plethora of research on changing the stigma of mental …

Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health
problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the …

An expansive body of research has investigated the experiences and adverse
consequences of internalized stigma for people with mental illness. This article provides a …

Reducing stigma is crucial for facilitating recovery from psychological problems. Viewing
these problems biomedically may reduce the tendency to blame affected persons, but critics …

Objective: Clinicians, advocates, and policy makers have presented mental illnesses as
medical diseases in efforts to overcome low service use, poor adherence rates, and stigma …

Disabled people experience ableism in many forms from the seemingly benevolent to the
blatantly hostile, and more ambivalent or mixed forms (eg, paternalistic/condescending and …