Board of Directors’ Column: Novel IDEAS Moving Whole Health Forward

Board of Directors’ Column: (de)Stigmatization of Mental Illness and Mental Health Care

“…As the last column in this series on I.D.E.A.S., the focus is to describe types of stigmas, illustrate consequences of stigma in relation to mental health care, and discuss de-stigmatization approaches. It bears repeating from the first column of the series that stigma is like an “ink spot on a shirt” (Okoli, 2022). Ink is common and so is a white shirt; yet, communicating that ink on a shirt is undesirable stigmatizes the ink spot.…”