Stigma of Mental Disorders and School
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Psychiatry and people with mental disorder are incurred the danger of stigmatization. Stigma hoilds numerous negative consequences for zhe mentally ill such as discrimination, isolation atc. Schizophrenia might serve as a model for the study of the stigma influence upon the mentally ill individualls. The efforts being interrelated with the attitudes of our society towards the mentally ill are included in the "Anti-stigma Program" of the World Psychiatric Association focused on the stigma of schizophrenia "Open the doors". The aim of this paper is to inform a great number of specialists in pedagogy with the problem of the stigma of mental disorders and to outline all the possible ways how the questions connected with the stigma could be integrated into curriculum of the educational branch "Teaching and health". |
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