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The human suffering associated with mental illness is something that more than one in five Canadians face at some point in their life.
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
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The human suffering associated with mental illness is something that more than one in five Canadians face at some point in their life.
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File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2007
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 2016-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309439124
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 most highly stigmatized health conditions in the United States, and they remain barriers to full participation in society in areas as basic as education, housing, and employment. Improving the lives of people with mental health and substance abuse disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 is considered a major turning point in America's efforts to improve behavioral healthcare. It ushered in an era of optimism and hope and laid the groundwork for the consumer movement and new models of recovery. The consumer movement gave voice to people with mental and substance use disorders and brought their perspectives and experience into national discussions about mental health. However over the same 50-year period, positive change in American public attitudes and beliefs about mental and substance use disorders has lagged behind these advances. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on a relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination. This report contributes to national efforts to understand and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that can lead to stigma and discrimination. Changing stigma in a lasting way will require coordinated efforts, which are based on the best possible evidence, supported at the national level with multiyear funding, and planned and implemented by an effective coalition of representative stakeholders. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies for reducing stigma and encouraging people to seek treatment and other supportive services. It offers a set of conclusions and recommendations about successful stigma change strategies and the research needed to inform and evaluate these efforts in the United States.
Author : World Health Organization
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2001
Category : World health
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
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Author : Canada. Health Canada
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic documents
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This report is designed to raise the profile of mental illness in Canada among government & non-governmental organizations and the industry, education, workplace, & academic sectors. It describes major mental illnesses and outlines their incidence & prevalence, causation, impact, stigma, and prevention & treatment. Data presented are based on currently available provincial studies & data on mortality and hospitalizations. Five mental illnesses have been selected for inclusion in the report by virtue of their high prevalence rates or because of the magnitude of their health, social, & economic impact: mood disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and eating disorders. While not in itself a mental illness, suicidal behaviour is also included since it is highly correlated with mental illness and raises many similar issues. The appendix includes information on data sources and a call for action on building consensus for a national action plan on mental illness & mental health.
Author : John Cairney
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1442698586
Canada has long been recognized as a leader in the field of psychiatric epidemiology, the study of the factors affecting mental health in populations. However, there has never been a book dedicated to the study of mental disorder at a population level in Canada. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the discipline uses data from the country's first national survey of mental disorder, the Canadian Community Health Survey of 2005, to fill that gap. Mental Disorder in Canada explores the history of psychiatric epidemiology, evaluates methodological issues, and analyzes the prevalence of several significant mental disorders in the population. The collection also includes essays on stigma, mental disorder and the criminal justice system, and mental health among women, children, workers, and other demographic groups. Focusing specifically on Canadian scholarship, yet wide-reaching in scope, Mental Disorder in Canada is an important contribution to the dissemination and advancement of knowledge on psychiatric epidemiology.
Author : Wolfgang Gaebel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3319278398
This book makes a highly innovative contribution to overcoming the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness – still the heaviest burden both for those afflicted and those caring for them. The scene is set by the presentation of different fundamental perspectives on the problem of stigma and discrimination by researchers, consumers, families, and human rights experts. Current knowledge and practice used in reducing stigma are then described, with information on the programmes adopted across the world and their utility, feasibility, and effectiveness. The core of the volume comprises descriptions of new approaches and innovative programmes specifically designed to overcome stigma and discrimination. In the closing part of the book, the editors – all respected experts in the field – summarize some of the most important evidence- and experience-based recommendations for future action to successfully rewrite the long and burdensome ‘story’ of mental illness stigma and discrimination.
Author : Wendy Austin
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0781795931
Rev. ed. of: Psychiatric nursing for Canadian practice / Wendy Austin, Mary Ann Boyd.
Author : Norman Sartorius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521549431
Details the results of the Open Doors Programme, set up to fight the stigma/discrimination attached to schizophrenia.