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How Media & Movies Shape Our Perception Of Serious Mental Illness

During this webinar, experts Georgia Stevens, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, Psychiatric Nurse & Director of Partners in Aging & Long-Term Caregiving, and Mary Ann Boyd, PhD, DNS, PMHCNSBC, Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville discuss the media’s effect on the stigmatization of individuals with schizophrenia or other serious mental illnesses. They review the definition of stigma, the processes associated with stigmatization, the perpetuation by the media of negative stereotypes of individuals with schizophrenia, and the impact of this stigmatization on …

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