Mental health stigmaEarly adolescenceAntistigma interventionsSchool-based interventionMiddle schoolEarly adolescence is a crucial period in the development of mental health?disorders. Although a significant number of adolescents experience mental health needs, only a third of adolescents with mental health ...
Recognition of symptoms and lack of fear of stigma may be crucial to adequate help-seeking for mental health issues. Stigmatization, self-stigmatization, embarrassment and shame are often seen in connection to mental disorders. After a mental health teaching programme, adolescents showed more understand...
it is of vital importance. It is critical that they appreciate you are listening in a totally non-judgemental and confidential way and they can speak openly without any worry about prejudice, stigma or implications.
Health-related stigma is a major barrier to achieving optimal health outcomes for affected populations. Whilst stigma is observed across a number of health conditions, it has most often been associated with infectious diseases and populations at greatest risk for infection. This is apparent in HIV...
These are factors beyond the immediate control of most settings where mental health promotion is conducted for adolescents, which could explain why such programmes have not met with much success. Current programmes targeting prevention and stigma reduction around depression may benefit from considering ...
Although many epidemiological and interventional investigations regarding improving mental health among youth in the Middle East have been performed, there is no systematic review specifically analyzing the studies on stigma among adolescents with mental disorders (A-MDs) across all Middle East countries de...
(5) Reducing stigma surrounding mental health disorders in Nigerian adolescents: A pilot study on the efficacy of new mental health literacy curricula(5) Reducing stigma surrounding mental health disorders in Nigerian adolescents: A pilot study on the efficacy of new mental health literacy curriculaSt...
conducted in 60 slum clusters spread across the two cities and has two core components [7]. The first is an anti-stigma campaign that aims to improve community behaviours towards adolescents with depression or at increased risk of self-harm/suicide. The second is a technology-enabled mHealth ...
This external perception of older adults could be internalized by them as a sense of self-perceived uselessness, leading to poor health and high mortality (Zhao et al. 2017). More importantly, the law of the jungle could lead to mental illness in older people of the Confucian context, ...
and this is often related to the stigma associ- ated with mental health, adolescents not disclosing mental health problems and/or a lack of available mental health services and early identification strategies.4 5 The risks of untreated mental disorders among adoles- cents are high and include th...