RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics (Dec 2015)

STIGMATISATION OF MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE AND THEIR DESTIGMATISATION: SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION

  • I B Bovina,
  • A V Yakushenko

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 2
pp. 14 – 23

Abstract

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The stigmatisation of mentally ill people is discussed in the article; the social representations theory is seen as one of the most productive among the different models of stigmatisation. The strategies of destigmatisation are also discussed in the article.

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