Paradigms lost
Subtitle: fighting stigma and the lessons leaned
By: Norman Sartorius, Heather Stuart, Julio Arboleda-Flórez
Contributors: Stuart, Heather L.; Arboleda-Flórez, J. (Julio), 1939-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780199797639
Subjects: Prejudice; Psychology; Attitude of Health Personnel; Mental Disorders; Mentally Ill Persons; Social Change; Social Stigma
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the nature and nurture of stigma; title: Paradigm 1: Developed countries have eradicated systemic discrimination on the grounds of mental illness; title: Paradigm 2: In developing countries, people with mental illnesses are not stigmatized; title: Paradigm 3: The fight against stigma must be based on well-developed long term specific and comprehensive plans; title: Paradigm 4: Scientific evidence will best define the targets of anti-stigma work; title: Paradigm 5: Mental health professionals should lead anti-stigma programs; title: Paradigm 6: Improving knowledge about mental illnesses will reduce stigma and discrimination; title: Paradigm 7: An anti-stigma program is successful if it changes attitudes; title: Paradigm 8: Community care for the mentally ill will destigmatize mental illness and psychiatry; title: Paradigm 9: Campaigns are an excellent way of reducing stigma; title: Paradigm 10: Anti-stigma programs should be built on the premise that mental illness is like any other illness; title: Paradigm 11: The stigma of mental illness is too deeply ingrained to prevent or reduce it; title: Summary of Part 1; title: Getting going; title: Identifying program priorities; title: Program development; title: Program monitoring and evaluation.