Stigma Measurement Approaches: Conceptual Origins and Current Applications

Understanding the Stigma of Mental Illness: Theory and Interventions

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 175-192

  Yang, Lawrence H ^a   Link, Bruce G ^a   Phelan, Jo C ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental health stigma measurement approach; Mental illness stigma and withdrawal measurement; Opinions about mental illness (OMI) and community attitudes toward mental Illness (CAMI); Stigma and mental health consumer experience; Vignettes and stigma measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878455051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470997642.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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