Table of Contents
List of contributors vii
Foreword ix
Preface xi
1 The rights of a powerless legion 1Julio Arboleda-Flórez
2 Cross-cultural aspects of the stigma of mental illness 19Bernice A. Pescosolido, Sigrun Olafsdottir, Jack K. Martin and J. Scott Long
3 The WPA Global Programme against Stigma and Discrimination because of Schizophrenia 37Norman Sartorius
4 ‘Fighting stigma and discrimination because of schizophenia – Open the Doors’: a collaborative review of the experience from the German project centres 49A.E. Baumann, W. Gaebel, et al.
5 Stigma and health care staff 69Juan J. López-Ibor Jr., Olga Cuenca and María-Inés López-Ibor
6 Evaluating programmatic needs concerning the stigma of mental illness 85Beate Schulze
7 Using the Internet for fighting the stigma of schizophrenia 125Hugh Schulze
8 Building an evidence base for anti-stigma programming 135Heather Stuart
9 Other people stigmatize . . . but, what about us? Attitudes of mental health professionals towards patients with schizophrenia 147Alp Üçok
10 Implementing anti stigma programmes in Boulder, Colorado and Calgary, Alberta 161Richard Warner
11 Stigma measurement approaches: conceptual origins and current applications 175Lawrence 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 193Heather Stuart, Michelle Koller and Roumen Milev
Index 205