STIGMA IN SLOVENIA

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STIGMA IN SLOVENIA

• Vesna vab
• Mateja Strbad

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BACKGROUND

• World War II euthanasia of psychiatric patients
• special safeguarding of psychiatric patients
• Institutionalization
• mixture of distancing, fear and pity

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TODAY

• No dividing line between the forensic and other
  lines of psychiatry
• Criminalization of mental illness in media
• Weak social status and poor living conditions of
  psychiatric patients social exclusion
• No mental health legislation
• Educational interventions

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PUBLIC EDUCATION

• Serial of round tables in the center
• Employment
• Mental health law
• Crisis interventions
• Continuing care
• Media and mental illness
• Families of the mentally ill
• Voluntary work etc.

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PATIENTS, CARERS AND PROFESSIONALS EDUCATION

• Mental illness
• Psychosocial rehabilitation
• Empowerment
• Legal rights
• Self help
• Stigma

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CONFERENCES

• Psychiatry in the community (2000)
• Conference on rehabilitation and community care
  (2002), and the
• Conference on education in the field of mental
  health (2004)

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COMPARISON
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NEW ACTIONS

• Indigo study what is the patients perception of
  stigma?
• Medical students want to influence their peers
  students research
• Relatives actions forum
• Continuous public action