The Stigma of Mental Illness
Strategies against social exclusion and discrimination
- 1st Edition - July 5, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Nicolas Ruesch
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 3 4 2 9 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 3 4 3 0 - 8
People with mental illness are often painfully familiar with overt prejudice or more subtle forms of mistreatment. The stigma and discrimination associated with their disorders ca… Read more
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Request a sales quotePeople with mental illness are often painfully familiar with overt prejudice or more subtle forms of mistreatment. The stigma and discrimination associated with their disorders can have effects in several areas of life: in social interactions, in work and healthcare settings, in the legal system and the media. Many withdraw due to shame and do not seek help. In turn, stigma can prove to be a more serious problem than the disorder itself. Yet too little is done to reduce stigma and its impact.
The Stigma of Mental Illness: Strategies Against Discrimination and Social Exclusion offers up the knowledge necessary to understand and fight against stigma and discrimination. It will be invaluable to all health professionals, social workers, healthcare managers and policy makers with an involvement or interest in mental illness.
- Broad coverage of the forms and consequences of stigma
- Specific treatment of stigma in relation to diagnoses such as dementia and autism
- Perspectives and strategies of a service user and a relative
- Up-to-date concepts regarding exclusion and discrimination
- Practical strategies for service users, relatives, healthcare professionals and policy makers
Mental Health Nurses; Nursing professionals; Advanced Practitioners
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- How to use
- Foreword
- Preface
- Biographical information
- List of Tables
- List of Illustrations
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Aims and content of the book
- 1.2 Language
- 1.3 Aims of antistigma work
- 1.4 Dismissing concerns?
- 1.5 Studies and evidence
- 1.6 Diagnoses and continuum
- 1.7 Stigma in times of social upheaval
- 1.8 What is missing in this book?
- 1.9 Perspective of this book
- 2. Historical and social contexts
- 2.1 Historical examples
- 2.2 The prevalence and burden of mental illness
- 2.3 Mental health as a social task
- 3. What is stigma?
- 3.1 Terms, models and forms of stigma
- 3.2 Categorisation and stereotypes as basic elements of stigma
- 3.3 Functions of stigma
- 4. Consequences of stigma
- 4.1 Consequences for nonstigmatised people
- 4.2 Consequences for stigmatised people
- 4.3 How can stigmatised people cope with stigma?
- 4.4 Contact between the stigmatised and nonstigmatised
- 5. People with various mental disorders and their relatives
- 5.1 People with mental illness
- 5.2 People with experience of suicidality
- 5.3 Young people at risk of psychosis or with first episode of psychosis
- 5.4 People with specific mental disorders
- 5.5 People with multiple stigmatised identities
- 5.6 Families and relatives
- 5.7 Children and adolescents
- 5.8 Migrants and refugees
- 6. Personal perspectives
- 6.1 Stigma in the lives of service users
- 6.2 Stigma and relatives
- 7. Stigma in different sectors of society
- 7.1 Work
- 7.2 Housing and homelessness
- 7.3 Healthcare system
- 7.4 The media
- 7.5 Stigma and the law
- 8. Reduction of public stigma
- 8.1 Education
- 8.2 Changing words
- 8.3 Protest
- 8.4 Contact
- 9. Strategies against self-stigma
- 9.1 Approaches to reduce self-stigma
- 9.2 Honest, open, proud (HOP)
- 10. Reduction of stigma as a barrier to help-seeking
- 10.1 General public and healthcare system
- 10.2 Self-stigma, shame and relatives
- 10.3 Evidence
- 11. Reducing structural discrimination
- 12. Nationwide antistigma campaigns
- 12.1 Antistigma campaigns from English-speaking countries
- 12.2 The situation in German-speaking countries
- 12.3 Who pays?
- 12.4 Who sits in the driver’s seat?
- 13. Stigma and discrimination related to mental illness in low- and middle-income countries
- 13.1 Cultural aspects and explanatory models of mental illness across LMICs
- 13.2 Southeast and East Asia: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Thailand
- 13.3 The middle East and North Africa: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia
- 13.4 Sub-Saharan Africa: Uganda, Ghana, South Africa, Ethiopia
- 13.5 Societal/structural aspects of mental illness stigma in LMICs
- 13.6 Mental health legislation and policies in LMICs
- 13.7 Antistigma interventions in LMICs
- 13.8 Provider stigma
- 13.9 Public stigma
- 13.10 Family stigma
- 13.11 Self-stigma
- 13.12 Cross-country antistigma research efforts in LMICs: The INDIGO partnership research programme
- 13.13 Integration of mental health to primary healthcare in LMICs
- 14. Looking back and ahead
- 14.1 What promotes social change?
- 14.2 Science fiction?
- 14.3 What can be done
- Glossary
- References
- Internet addresses
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 5, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323834292
- eBook ISBN: 9780323834308
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Nicolas Ruesch
Nicolas Rüsch has been working in stigma research for 20 years. He has ongoing cooperations of 10+ years with leading international researchers, incl. Prof. P.W. Corrigan, Chicago; Prof. Sir G. Thornicroft, London/UK; Dr. Sara Evans-Lacko, London/UK. He has a background in social psychiatry as well as extensive research experience evidenced by >145 peer-reviewed journal articles and various book chapters and other publications.
Affiliations and expertise
Ulm University, germany