The American Psychological Association has announced that it has begun publishing a new journal, Stigma and Health.
The lives of people living with disease and disability are worsened by stigma, thus leading to public prejudice and loss of self-worth, and causing negative implications for health and well-being. Erasing stigma has become a major health priority due to its egregious effects. Research on the stigma of disease and disability has skyrocketed over the past several decades, and such research is essential to fully understanding stigma and the mechanisms that might remedy it.
To be published on a quarterly basis, Stigma and Health serves as a venue for articles examining research representing stigma in its various guises (e.g., public stigma, self-stigma, label avoidance and structural stigma) as it impacts people living with mental and physical illness.
Stigma and Health publishes peer-reviewed, original research articles that may include tests of hypotheses about the form and impact of stigma, examination of strategies to decrease stigma's effects and survey research capturing stigma in populations. Stigma and Health especially welcomes research studies on methods meant to erase the stigma of mental and physical illnesses. Theoretical reviews and pioneering reports on innovations are also welcome. The journal publishes regular articles as well as brief reports.
Patrick W. Corrigan, distinguished professor of psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, is the inaugural editor of the journal.
Articles published in Stigma and Health will also be available through PsycARTICLES®, the most used full-text database in psychology and one of the most popular databases in all scholarly disciplines and fields. PsycARTICLES is available to a global audience of nearly 3,700 institutions and 80 million potential users.
Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).
