Understanding and challenging stigma in serious mental health conditions

People with a serious mental health condition (treatment resistant depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis-spectrum conditions) may face different types of stigma, including public stigma, structural stigma, and self-stigma. Stigma is associated with negative impacts to treatment access and wellbeing, yet limited research has been conducted into exploring predictors of these different types of stigma across diverse populations, the impacts of stigma, how stigmatising beliefs are developed and internalized, and interventions to address stigmatising beliefs and behaviours at different levels (i.e., individual/group interventions, public health campaigns, healthcare professional education). Interested students are invited to design a project to address understudied aspects of stigma in serious mental health, including via surveys, qualitative interviews, and experimental research. Co-supervision arrangements will depend on the student's proposed project.