Living with Mental Illness in a Globalised World: Combating Stigma and Barriers to Healthcare

ISBN-13: 9780367698317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 174 str.

Ugo Ikwuka

Opis

This text systematically examines the manifold contributions to the burdens of living with mental illness in a developing and globalized world. It explores the stigma of mental illness, the burden of which is sometimes considered more disabling than the illness itself.

Spis treści

Foreword; Part One: Attitudes towards Mental Illness; Chapter 1 The Socio-psychological Processes of Stigma; Chapter 2: Types of Mental Illness Stigma; Chapter 3: Stigma Predisposing Factors; Chapter 4: Consequences of the Stigma of Mental Illness; Chapter 5: Pervasiveness of Stigma; Chapter 6: Improving Stigmatising Attitudes; Part Two: Barriers to Mental Healthcare; Chapter 7: Help-seeking Determinants and Ideological Barriers; Chapter 8: Help-seeking Determinants and Instrumental Barriers; Chapter 9: Ideological vs. Instrumental Barriers to Mental Healthcare; Part Three: Pathways to Mental Healthcare: Evolving an Effective Design; Chapter 10: Pathways to Mental Healthcare; Chapter 11: Patterns of Mental Healthcare Pathways in Sub-Saharan Africa; Chapter 12: Conclusion: Towards a Complementary Model of Mental Healthcare.

O autorze

Ugo Ikwuka, PhD, lectures at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has published several works on causal attributions for mental illness, pathways to mental healthcare, and barriers to accessing mental healthcare.