Stigma as a barrier to recovery from mental illness

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-10

  Wahl, Otto F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONVALESCENCE; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTIMACY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; NOTE; PESSIMISM; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STIGMA; VIOLENCE;

HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREJUDICE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL STIGMA; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84855312461     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.11.002     Document Type: Note

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