Reducing psychiatric stigma and discrimination - Evaluating an educational intervention with the police force in England

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 337-344

  Pinfold, Vanessa ^a   Huxley, P ^a   Thornicroft, G ^a   Farmer, P ^b   Toulmin, H ^a   Graham, T ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attitudes; Mental health; Police

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; POLICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; STEREOTYPY; UNITED KINGDOM; VIOLENCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; IN SERVICE TRAINING; MENTAL PATIENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ENGLAND; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; POLICE; PREJUDICE; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 0042477863     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-003-0641-4     Document Type: Article

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