250 labels used to stigmatise people with mental illness

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Graham Thornicroft · King's College London

Vanessa Pinfold · Rethink Mental Illness

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Our findings suggest the hypothesis that help-seeking by mentally ill young people may be improved by interventions that address both their lack of factual information about mental illness, and those which reduce their strong negative emotional reactions towards people with mental illness.

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Mental Health Treatment and Access Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Schizophrenia research and treatment

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Published in: BMC Health Services Research

Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 97-97

DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-97

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250 labels used to stigmatise people with mental illness

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