Coping With Stigma: Does A Targeted Intervention Help?
The strength of stigma against mental illness has not declined in recent years; in fact, according to some research, it has increased. So report the authors of a recent study about coping with stigma. A large group of researchers from universities across Germany, led by Wolfgang Gaebel and Harald Zäske, both from the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany, sought to determine if therapeutic sessions about coping with stigma could improve quality of life …
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