Overcoming social stigmas: What motivates people to overcome social stigmas that they hold?
Channel: Daniel Baxter
Date: 2016-11-27

"The single most important barrier to overcome in the community is the stigma and associated discrimination towards persons suffering from mental and behavioural disorders." (World Health Organization, 2001)

BOOK CHAPTER
For further information please view my Wikiversity book chapter on this topic: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Motivation_and_emotion/Book/2016/Overcoming_social_stigmas

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Baxter, D. J. (2016). Social identity theory [Image]. Retrieved from: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/File:Social_identity_theory.png
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N.b. The images used in the presentation, in order of occurrence are from: Baxter, 2016; Walker, 1905; News 5 Cleveland, 2014; Surviving ebola, overcoming stigma, 2014. The background graphic was self-made from a royalty-free image.

CITATION
An appropriate citation for this work is: Baxter, D. J. (2016, November 27). Overcoming social stigmas: What motivates people to overcome social stigmas that they hold? [Video file]. Retrieved from:  https://youtu.be/YkTKgptIag0

This is an updated video, the earlier version is here: https://youtu.be/HMdl-VDRg9I

LICENCE: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/legalcode

TRANSCRIPT: https://mega.nz/#!TFsngA6C!HXk8kn4iRAfiZnEXL2B80dhzgwxwIzXJ1aLg6d3c9S0

DOWNLOAD
Includes the video, the powerpoint slides, and transcript in a 7-Zip file. https://mega.nz/#!bItTyIaY!I5gmYeHqtcx78S21AnXtbd8cv0SuIF2e9lKu6LdiJ3o

Video was recorded using OBS: https://obsproject.com/

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