Telling is risky business : mental health consumers confront stigma / Otto F. Wahl.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 231 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585274045
- 9780585274041
- Mental illness -- Public opinion
- Psychiatry -- Public opinion
- Stigma (Social psychology)
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness
- MEDICAL -- Mental Health
- Mental illness -- Public opinion
- Psychiatry -- Public opinion
- Stigma (Social psychology)
- Mental Disorders
- Public Opinion
- Stereotyping
- 362.2 21
- RC454.4 .W327 1999eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index.
One person's story -- Mental illness stigma -- Reaching consumers -- Isolation and rejection -- Discouragement and lowered goals -- Discrimination -- Indirect stigma -- Impact of stigma -- Strategies and coping -- Consumer messages about mental illness -- Cautions and limitations -- Resources for fighting stigma.
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