Stigma and mental health.

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Reflect on what you know, or
have experienced, in terms of stigma and mental illness

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Search the current and
historical literature regarding stigma and mental illness

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Define stigma and describe its
impact, why it occurs, and what maintains it

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Identify what has been done
about stigma in relation to mental illness in Australia, describing what seems
to have worked well and what is currently missing

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Explain why you think some
strategies have been more successful than others, for example media campaigns,
celebrity exposure, awareness raising, normalising and shaming

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Describe, based on your
reflections and any literature you may have read, what needs to change for the
stigma of mental ill-health to be overcome and how this might be achieved

Structure
You need to structure your assignment to
respond to the following 4 questions. For each question, you need to include
your own personal reflection as well as a summary of the literature, with
relevant citations.

1. What is stigma (2 marks), how
   does it impact people with mental ill-health (3 marks), why does it occur and
   what maintains it (4 marks)? Personally reflect on how stigma is created and maintained in your current or former workplace (1 mark)
2. What has been done to directly
   address mental health stigma in Australia (5 marks), what strategies have
   worked well (2 marks) and what is currently missing from the Australian
   response (2 marks)? Describe different types of programs and interventions and provide examples. Personally reflect on an intervention/program delivered in your current or former workplace and how well
   it worked (1 mark)
3. Why have some strategies been
   more successful than others? (4 marks) Personally reflect on why the workplace intervention/program you described in Q2 was
   successful/unsuccessful (1 mark)
4. What needs to change for the
   stigma of mental ill-health to be overcome? (4 marks)