Understanding the Stigma of Mental Illness: Theory and Interventions

by Julio Arboleda-Flórez

Many mentally ill people are the victims of stigma, which leads to additional suffering and humiliation. Negative stereotypes and prejudicial attitudes against them are often reinforced by their media representation as unpredictable, violent and dangerous. Hence the importance of the study of stigma as an explanatory construct of much that transpires in the management of the mentally ill in our societies.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470723289
• ISBN13: 9780470723289
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.8"