'Fighting Stigma and Discrimination because of Schizophrenia - Open the Doors': A Collaborative Review of the Experience from the German Project Centres

Understanding the Stigma of Mental Illness: Theory and Interventions

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 49-67

  Baumann, A E ^a   Gaebel, W ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

anti stigma school workshop and understanding mental conditions; ASAM (Anti stigma Action Munich) or BASTA; Munich project group Bavarian Anti stigma Action; Schizophrenia fighting stigma and discrimination; Stigma and mental health anti stigma prize

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861188330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470997642.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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