Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness: Lessons for Therapists and Advocates [Kindle Edition]

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Author: Patrick W. Corrigan
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Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness offers practical strategies for addressing the harmful effects of stigma attached to mental illness. It considers both major forms of stigma: public stigma, which is prejudice and discrimination endorsed by the general population; and self-stigma, the loss of self-esteem and efficacy that occurs when an individual internalizes prejudice and discrimination.  

• Invaluable guide for professionals and volunteers working in any capacity to challenge discrimination against mental illness
• Contains practical worksheets and intervention guidelines to facilitate the implementation of specific anti-stigma approaches
• Authors are highly experienced and respected experts in the field of mental illness stigma research

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• File Size: 1666 KB
• Print Length: 254 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2 edition (June 13, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005C64YV8
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #873,757 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness: Lessons for Therapists and Advocates

This is an incredible resource for anyone interested in understanding and working to eliminate the stigma of mental illness. Corrigan and colleagues do a fabulous job incorporating a vast field of theory, research, and lived experience and making it accessible and useful to advocates and professionals. It is really a step by step guide for implementing local anti-stigma campaigns based in the best available evidence for what works. The real life examples bring the concepts to life and make the book an engaging read. Anyone interested in challenging mental illness stigma should have this in their advocacy tool box.

By Amy C. Watson

This book is well-researched but also intelligible to a lay reader. I am a lawyer with a case involving an individual who could be stigmatized and the book gave me what I needed to get "up to speed" on the topic.

By Michael

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