What Is the Evidence for Reducing Discrimination against People with Mental Illness?
In his presentation this London-based researcher will give an overview of the evidence for discrimination against people with mental illness in key domains of everyday life including personal and family relationship, work and employment, social life and citizenship, and health care. Graham will draw on the international literature to summarize the evidence for effective interventions to reduce such discrimination, and in doing so present the key points from his recent book: Thornicroft G. (2006) Shunned: Discrimination Against People with Mental Illness. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Graham Thornicroft is Professor of Community Psychiatry, and Head of the multi-disciplinary Health Services Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. He is a Consultant Psychiatrist and is Director of Research and Development at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. He chaired the External Reference Group for the National Service Framework for Mental Health in England. His areas of research expertise include: stigma and discrimination, mental health needs assessment, the development of outcome scales, cost-effectiveness evaluation of mental health treatments, and mental health services in less economically developed countries. He has authored and co-authored 20 books and over 160 papers in peer reviewed journals.
