Reducing stigma and discrimination: A case study of a ‘Human Library' Reading event DOI Creative Commons
Julie Langan Martin,

Katy Jon Went,

Sharon Greenwood

и другие.

Equity in Education & Society, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 23, 2025

Mental health disorders are widespread, affecting millions of people globally, creating a significant disease burden and leading to premature mortality. Stigma, discrimination, social exclusion remain key barriers mental healthcare, often preventing individuals from seeking help. Cultural differences shape the experience stigma. To reduce stigma, three main intervention strategies commonly used: education, contact, activism. Educational initiatives aim replace harmful stereotypes with facts, while contact programs, such as ‘Human Library’, facilitate direct interactions between drawn stigmatised groups improve understanding, discrimination. In marginalised groups, known ‘Books’ share personal experiences small ‘Readers’. These foster empathy prejudice. this case study, we describe how integrated Library’ into curriculum postgraduate programme. Feedback across two consecutive cohorts students indicated that event was highly informative encouraged challenge their own biases. The project’s success has led plans for its continued use, hopes further assess impact on literacy prejudice well adapting it our online distance learning students.

Язык: Английский

Reducing stigma and discrimination: A case study of a ‘Human Library' Reading event DOI Creative Commons
Julie Langan Martin,

Katy Jon Went,

Sharon Greenwood

и другие.

Equity in Education & Society, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 23, 2025

Mental health disorders are widespread, affecting millions of people globally, creating a significant disease burden and leading to premature mortality. Stigma, discrimination, social exclusion remain key barriers mental healthcare, often preventing individuals from seeking help. Cultural differences shape the experience stigma. To reduce stigma, three main intervention strategies commonly used: education, contact, activism. Educational initiatives aim replace harmful stereotypes with facts, while contact programs, such as ‘Human Library’, facilitate direct interactions between drawn stigmatised groups improve understanding, discrimination. In marginalised groups, known ‘Books’ share personal experiences small ‘Readers’. These foster empathy prejudice. this case study, we describe how integrated Library’ into curriculum postgraduate programme. Feedback across two consecutive cohorts students indicated that event was highly informative encouraged challenge their own biases. The project’s success has led plans for its continued use, hopes further assess impact on literacy prejudice well adapting it our online distance learning students.

Язык: Английский

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