Public attitudes and beliefs are relevant to both individual and structural discrimination. They are a reflection of cultural conceptions of mental illness that form a reality that people must take into account when they enact behavior and policy makers must confront when making decisions....

Pioneering scholarship links retrospective childhood conditions to mature adult health. We distinctively provide critical evidence with prospective state-of-the-art measures of parent income observed multiple times during childhood in the 1970s to 1990s. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics,...

The policies and institutional practices developed to care for people with mental illnesses have critical relevance to the production of stigma as they can induce it, minimize it or even block it. This manuscript addresses two prominent and competing perspectives on the consequences for stigma...

Nach aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen erkrankt in Deutschland knapp ein Drittel der Bevölkerung zwischen 18 und 79 Jahren im Verlauf eines Jahres an einer psychischen Störung. Darunter fallen alle psychischen Erkrankungen unabhängig vom Schweregrad. Neben Erkrankungen mit einer leichten...