27/06/2021
Call for Papers
Special Issue on Stigma, Mental Illness and Substance Use
A special issue of the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction will be devoted to empirical papers and related to Stigma, Mental Illness and Substance Use.
Important Dates
Manuscript Submission Deadline: October 15, 2021
Background
Mental illnesses and substance use disorders are considered among the most stigmatizing of all health conditions and is observed worldwide. Stigmatization exists at the level of individuals (e.g. self stigma), interpersonal relations (i.e., public stigma) and systems and policies (i.e., structural stigma). Stigmatization is embedded in discriminatory and inequitable health and social policies and laws. Stigmatization is also intersectional, and its negative effects can be compounded with the convergence of multiple stigmatized identities.. It creates major barriers to treatment, recovery, and quality of life, contributes to the global impact of disease, and results in social and economic injustice. Thus, it is critical to disseminate interdisciplinary evidence-based research that furthers our understanding of the various sources, expressions and impacts of mental illnesses and substance use related stigma, and that identifies multilevel interventions to reduce stigma, including frameworks, promising and best practices, measurement tools, and theories of change.
Special Issue Objectives
The special issue is intended to highlight a broad range of issues, perspectives and stigma reduction approaches from anthropology, history, medicine, policy sciences, psychiatry, psychology, public health, social sciences. We are particulalry interested in manuscripts that discuss and evaluate and different perspectives, methods and strategies to comprehend and reduce stigma toward mental illnesses and substance use. We are interested in receiving quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and conceptual papers .
Manuscript Submission
All submitted manuscripts will undergo peer review. Therefore, submitting a manuscript does not guarantee inclusion in the special issue.
Manuscripts should follow the instructions for regular articles or brief reports, respectively, and be submitted via the online submission system on the journal’s website (https://www.springer.com/journal/11469).
https://www.springer.com/journal/11469/updates/19292972
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