Mental health is a state of complete physical, mental and social development, which aims to healthy people adapt to their environment, taking into account factors such as thoughts, emotions and physical reactions influence ...

Las personas afectadas enfermedades mentales atraviesan procesos de estigmatización y discriminación. Esto genera dos problemáticas: las relacionadas a la enfermedad y las producidas por el estigma, representando estas ...

Summary Background Comorbid mental illnesses and substance use disorders are associated with adverse criminal, social, and health outcomes. Yet, their burden is not reliably known among prison populations. We therefore ...

Stigma towards mental illness and addictive disorders is a global problem and one of the main obstacles in tackling this issue remains the effective integration of mental health services into primary health care (PHC). In ...

El objetivo del presente estudio fue explorar las representaciones sociales de las enfermedades mentales en mujeres de Ayacucho, Perú. Para ello, se realizó una investigación cualitativa que utilizó 5 entrevistas ...

BACKGROUND: Research shows that personnel working in mental health facilities may share some of the societal prejudices towards mental illness. This might result in stigmatizing behaviours towards people suffering from ...

Resumen: La salud mental es un estado de bienestar físico, mental y social, que tiene como objetivo una sana adaptación de las personas a su ambiente, teniendo en cuenta que factores como pensamientos, emociones y reacciones ...

This research focuses on the uses of the expression mental illness in the discursive practices of the Psychiatric Reform. Although vigorously criticized by several authors within this tradition, such expression is recurrently ...