Understanding the Stigma of Mental Illness: Theory and Interventions

List of contributors vii

Foreword ix

Preface xi

1 The rights of a powerless legion 1
Julio Arboleda-Flórez

2 Cross-cultural aspects of the stigma of mental illness 19
Bernice A. Pescosolido, Sigrun Olafsdottir, Jack K. Martin and J. Scott Long

3 The WPA Global Programme against Stigma and Discrimination because of Schizophrenia 37
Norman Sartorius

4 ‘Fighting stigma and discrimination because of schizophenia – Open the Doors’: a collaborative review of the experience from the German project centres 49
A.E. Baumann, W. Gaebel, et al.

5 Stigma and health care staff 69
Juan J. López-Ibor Jr., Olga Cuenca and María-Inés López-Ibor

6 Evaluating programmatic needs concerning the stigma of mental illness 85
Beate Schulze

7 Using the Internet for fighting the stigma of schizophrenia 125
Hugh Schulze

8 Building an evidence base for anti-stigma programming 135
Heather Stuart

9 Other people stigmatize . . . but, what about us? Attitudes of mental health professionals towards patients with schizophrenia 147
Alp Üçok

10 Implementing anti stigma programmes in Boulder, Colorado and Calgary, Alberta 161
Richard Warner

11 Stigma measurement approaches: conceptual origins and current applications 175
Lawrence H. Yang, Bruce G. Link and Jo C. Phelan

Appendix Inventories to measure the scope and impact of stigma experiences from the perspective of those who are stigmatized – consumer and family versions 193
Heather Stuart, Michelle Koller and Roumen Milev

Index 205