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Stigma: An Old Unmet Need in Psychiatric Practice

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The stigma associated with mental illnesses undermines social equity for people who have a mental illness, their family members, and compromises mental health programming and professionals. Numerous anti-stigma initiatives have developed in order to promote full and effective social participation for people with mental illnesses and to remove structural barriers that promote discriminatory practices. This chapter reviews mental health-related stigma, highlights some of the more active international and national anti-stigma initiatives, and discusses challenges and future directions for anti-stigma initiatives.

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  1. Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

    Heather Stuart & Brooke Linden

  2. The Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programs, Geneva, Switzerland

    Norman Sartorius

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  1. Department of Neurosciences Mental Health and Sensory Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Maurizio Pompili

  2. University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Roger McIntyre

  3. Department of Psychiatry, University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

    Andrea Fiorillo

  4. Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes (AMH), Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland

    Norman Sartorius

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Stuart, H., Linden, B., Sartorius, N. (2020). Stigma: An Old Unmet Need in Psychiatric Practice. In: Pompili, M., McIntyre, R., Fiorillo, A., Sartorius, N. (eds) New Directions in Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42637-8_13

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