VALIDITY OF THE SHAHIN MIXED DEPRESSION SCALE: A SELF-RATED INSTRUMENT DESIGNED TO MEASURE THE NON-DSM MIXED FEATURES IN DEPRESSION

Validity of the Shahin Mixed Depression Scale: A Self-Rated Instrument Designed to Measure the Non-DSM Mixed Features in Depression

Islam Shahin,1 Caterina Del Mar Bonnin,2 Elsayed Saleh,3 Khaled Helmy,4,5 Usama M Youssef,6 Eduard Vieta2 1Cairo Mood Center, Cairo, Egypt; 2Barcelona Bipolar Disorders and Depressive Unit, Hospital Clinic, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; 3Department of Psychiatry, Mansoura Univers

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Reducing the stigma of mental illness

This paper presents a narrative review of anti-stigma programming using examples from different countries to understand and describe current best practices in the field.Results WOMENS WETSUITS highlight the importance of targeting the behavioural outcomes of the stigmatization process (discrimination and social inequity), which is consistent with r

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