Background

Healthcare workers across the world have risen to the demands of treating COVID-19 patients, potentially at significant cost to their own health and wellbeing. There has been increasing recognition of the potential mental health impact of COVID-19 on frontline workers and calls to provide psychosocial support for them. However, little attention has so far been paid to understanding the impact of working on a pandemic from healthcare workers’ own perspectives or what their views are about support.

Methods

Key healthcare databases (Medline, PsychINFO and PubMed) were checked, from...

سازمان بهداشت پان امریکن (PAHO) که مشترکاً با کمیسیون بهداشت روانی کانادا همکاری می کند، از 15 آگست تا 30 نوامبر 2022 دوره جدید خودآموزی و هدایت شده با مربیگری آنلاین "درک ننگ و مهارت های شناختی رفتاری بین فردی" را برگزار خواهد کرد. 

هدف از این دوره، کاهش ننگ مرتبط با سلامت روان و بهبود مهارت های مدیریت بالینی و تمرینی در میان ارائه دهندگان مراقبت های اولیه در هنگام کار با افرادی است که چالش های سلامت روانی را تجربه می کنند.

 در این پست وبلاگ و راهنمای, دکتر استفان پارکین سهام مشاهدات خود را در مورد استفاده از کلمات و عبارات ننگ در نوشتن دانشگاهی, ارائه می دهد و یک لیست از جایگزین های فرد محور و عملگرا.

The need to change our language in relation to people who use drugs has become an increasing topic of discussion, but there is still a long way to go. People who use drugs are highly diverse and their relationship with drug use takes many different forms. Current prohibitionist approaches to drug use and ‘war on drugs’ rhetoric do little to encourage language that acknowledges this. Instead, it promotes and maintains negative stereotypes that construct people who use drugs as morally flawed, inferior, unreliable, and dangerous.

Language does not standstill. It is dynamic, and the language and...

Stigma among healthcare providers is a barrier to the effective delivery of mental health services in primary care. Few studies have been conducted in primary care settings comparing the attitudes of healthcare providers and experiences of people with mental illness who are service users in those facilities. Such research is necessary across diverse global settings to characterize stigma and inform effective stigma reduction.

Qualitative research was conducted on mental illness stigma in primary care settings in one low-income country (Nepal), two lower-middle income countries (India, Tunisia...

ننگ مانع بزرگی برای رفاه و بهبودی افراد مبتلا به تجربه زندگی و زندگی از اختلالات مصرف مواد است.

این ویدیو متحرک در مورد دو دوست، الکس و سام، به بررسی تاثیر مخرب ننگ استفاده از مواد و چگونه آن را در جوامع ما به چالش بکشد.

"سفر من با شفقت شروع می شود" داستانی را در مورد دوستی، مهربانی و تغییر برداشت های منفی از افرادی که از مواد استفاده می کنند، روایت می کند.

A special issue of the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction will be devoted to empirical papers and related to Stigma, Mental Illness and Substance Use.

The special issue is intended to highlight a broad range of issues, perspectives and stigma reduction approaches from anthropology, history, medicine, policy sciences, psychiatry, psychology, public health, social sciences. The International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction are particularly interested in manuscripts that discuss and evaluate and different perspectives, methods and strategies to comprehend and reduce...