Will royal patronage improve perceptions of mental illness?

Will royal patronage improve perceptions of mental illness?

Emeritus Professor Alan Glasper, from the University of Southampton, discusses the stigma still suffered by people with mental health disorders and whether a recently launched campaign can help challenge it.

Perceptions of Mental Illness and Mental Health Policy

The present study examined people’s implicit and explicit perceptions of mental illness and compared those attitudes to ratings of fairness for psychiatric hospital policies. The sample consisted of 88 participants, from both Connecticut College and Amazon Mechanical Turk. Data were derived from a Hospital Policy Questionnaire created by the researcher, the Perceptions of Dangerousness of Menta...

Medicine under the royal patronage of Asafia kings.

This article is a translation work of some portion of Islami Tibb. written by Rehber Farooqui. It deals with the state of medicine during the reigns of the two kings of Nizam dynasty. viz . Nawab Afzeluddaula Behadur and Nawab Mir Mehboob Ali Khan Behadur , the Fifth and the Sixth Nizams respectively. In this period medical department along with the other departments came into existence. The Un...

Perceptions of discrimination among persons with serious mental illness.

OBJECTIVES The authors sought to gain further perspective on discrimination experienced by persons with mental illness by comparing self-reports of discrimination due to mental illness to self-reports of discrimination due to other group characteristics, such as race, gender, and sexual orientation. METHODS A total of 1,824 persons with serious mental illness who participated in a baseline in...

Exploring the Impact of Mental Health Education on Adolescents’ Perceptions about Mental Health and Mental Illness