People struggling with mental illness, from the mildest and most routine to the intractable and utterly devastating, are also burdened by the stereotypes and prejudices of stigmatization. The stigma ...

Stigmatization and risk of accusation of blasphemy Many Christian workers who took part in the Amnesty study said they had experienced stigmatization, recalling that the majority Muslim community ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine sex differences in children's weight-based stigmatization. DESIGN: School-based sample of children evaluating qualities of children of varying weights. SUBJECTS: Thirty-four ...

Territorial stigmatization refers to the process by which certain places become marked as undesirable, unsafe or deficient, owing to a combination of social, economic and political factors. These ...

Bogota, Colombia — Information manipulation and misinformation are not new phenomena, but they have taken on exaggerated importance, especially with the massive use of social media. Hostile and ...

Misconceptions about trauma can be further isolating for survivors. Source: Jordy Meow/Unsplash Interpersonal trauma, or traumatic events that are inflicted by others (e.g. sexual assault, childhood ...

2:12 Some people in Toronto coronavirus hotspots afraid of association to COVID-19 Inequality has been one of the driving factors in the spread of COVID-19 in Toronto, but what is less known is the ...

The stigmatization of mental illness is well-documented, and many of us witness it on a daily basis, even if we don’t realize it. But with more than one in five adults suffering from mental health ...

Cannabis is one of the world’s most commonly used recreational drugs, and in recent years public opinion has been shifting in its favor. More and more countries and local governments have been ...