Addressing the Stigma Surrounding Serious Mental Illness in Adolescents: a Brief Intervention

This study supports the delivery of anti-stigma education to adolescents that avoids the biogenetic and contact approaches, embraces the continuum model of mental health, normalizes psychotic experiences, addresses dangerousness with data, identifies prominent figures with mental illn ess, and uses personalized statistics to demonstrate why this topic is of importance.
Source: Psychiatric Quarterly - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research