List of contributors

Foreword

Preface

1 The rights of a powerless legion

Julio Arboleda-Flórez

2 Cross-cultural aspects of the stigma of mental illness

Bernice A. Pescosolido, Sigrun Olafsdottir, Jack K. Martin and J. Scott Long

The WPA Global Programme against Stigma and Discrimination because of Schizophrenia

Norman Sartorius

4 ‘Fighting stigma and discrimination because of schizophrenia –

Open the Doors’: a collaborative review of the experience from the German project centres

A.E. Baumann, W. Gaebel, et al.

5 Stigma and health care staff

Juan J. López-Ibor Jr., Olga Cuenca and María-Inés López-Ibor

6 Evaluating programmatic needs concerning the stigma of mental illness

Beate Schulze

7 Using the Internet for fighting the stigma of schizophrenia

Hugh Schulze

8 Building an evidence base for anti-stigma programming

Heather Stuart

9 Other people stigmatize . . . but, what about us? Attitudes of mental health professionals towards patients with schizophrenia

Alp Űçok

10 Implementing anti stigma programmes in Boulder, Colorado and Calgary, Alberta

Richard Warner

11 Stigma measurement approaches: conceptual origins and current applications

Lawrence H. Yang, Bruce G. Link and Jo C. Phelan

Appendix Inventories to measure the scope and impact of stigma experiences from the perspective of those who are stigmatized – consumer and family versions

Heather Stuart, Michelle Koller and Roumen Milev

Index