Herausforderungen und Erfolge: Das Stigma psychischer Krankheiten

Georg Schomerus; Philip A. Horsfield

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Herausforderungen und Erfolge: Das Stigma psychischer Krankheiten

Georg Schomerus and Philip A. Horsfield

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From the journal Public Health Forum Volume 26 Issue 3

Zusammenfassung

Das Stigma psychischer Krankheit wirkt zum vielfachen Nachteil der Betroffenen und ist nicht zuletzt Behandlungshindernis. In Anbetracht der Prävalenz psychischer Krankheit in der Bevölkerung und der Tatsache, dass sie häufig lange unbehandelt bleibt, ist die Stigmabekämpfung auf dem Gebiet von Public Mental Health eine zentrale Herausforderung. Dabei sollte Anti-Stigma Arbeit gezielt, lokal, kontinuierlich, kontaktbasiert und recovery-orientiert ansetzen. Reduktionistischen sollten kontinuum-basierten Krankheitsmodellen weichen.

Abstract

The stigma of mental disease is detrimental to those afflicted by it and can ultimately inhibit help-seeking. Given the prevalence of mental illness in the general public and the fact that it often goes untreated for a long time, reducing this stigma constitutes an important public mental health concern. Anti-stigma initiatives should focus on targeted, local, continuous, contact-based, recovery-oriented interventions. Disease models should be continuum-based rather than reductionist.

Schlüsselwörter: Behandlungslücke; öffentliche Einstellungen; Public Mental Health; soziale Distanz; Stigma

Keywords: public attitudes; public mental health; social distance; stigma; treatment gap

*Korrespondenz: Prof. Dr. Georg Schomerus, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Ellernholzstraße 1-2, 17475 Greifswald

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public attitudes; public mental health; social distance; stigma; treatment gap