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Mental Health and Stigma

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The issue of stigma is recognized as a major public health challenge. There are many authors discussed and examined Mental Health (MH) stigma related factors, emphasized the different levels of stigma with brief description and analysis of individual, family, community and mass media related factors to stigma. From spiritual to more materialistic-oriented world the tendencies of the century are value the economic concerns and overcoming ways of their solutions. That’s why the economic impact of stigma and yearly increased burden of mental health in global economy is also one of the key issues discussed here.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Centre of Psychosocial Recovery, Yerevan State Medical University, 2 Koryun street, 025, Yerevan, Armenia

    Armen Soghoyan

  2. Department of Medical Psychology, Intra Mental Health Centre, Yerevan State Medical University, 2 Koryun Street, 0025, Yerevan, Armenia

    Khachatur Gasparyan

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  1. Dr. Bährer-Kohler & Partners, Basel, Switzerland

    Sabine Bährer-Kohler

  2. International University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Francisco Javier Carod-Artal

Take Away Messages

Take Away Messages

  • Mental illness stigma reduces the well-being of persons experiencing mental illness. The internalization of negative views has been linked to low self-esteem, self-blame and negative emotional states.

  • Concerning to stigma and family it has to acknowledge that cultural factors in this case have an important role and there is need to further study existing relationships between family and stigma in multicultural level.

  • The community mental health services , primary health, public health and mental health professionals, and social workers should organize their work according to anti-stigma programs, preventive measurements and ethical standards.

  • Mass media representatives are also need to pay more attention to public education on mental health issues to prevent stigmatizing behaviour in society.

  • Stigma is not only a moral and psychological issue for individuals, their families, community and general public, but also a serious financial and economic cause starting from the level of human being up to governmental and global levels.

  • The World Psychiatric Association (WPA 2016) has a section for stigma and mental health in collaboration, e.g. with the Health Service and Population Research Department King’s College in London/United Kingdom.

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Soghoyan, A., Gasparyan, K. (2017). Mental Health and Stigma. In: Bährer-Kohler, S., Carod-Artal, F. (eds) Global Mental Health . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59123-0_6

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