Media and anti-stigma activities could help combat mental health stigma and discrimination, but only with lived experience involvement, according to research led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London in collaboration with the Global Mental Health Peer Network.
Researchers found that insensitive language and misinformation continue to reinforce harmful stereotypes about mental health conditions around the world. Tokenistic involvement of people with lived experience resulted in weak anti-stigma campaigns with little positive impact.
The findings emphasized that people with lived experience play a key role in efforts to reduce stigma and discrimination.
Although anti-stigma activities such as awareness-raising campaigns and education initiatives were thought to be helpful, participants felt that lived experience involvement was sometimes tokenistic, resulting in reduced effectiveness.
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