Stigma and discrimination

This report shares the voices and experiences of people with lived experience in Aotearoa. The team travelled around Aotearoa to wānanga with people with lived experience. These insights informed not only the report, but the eight key recommendations included.

A new research report shows gap in literature into perspectives on compulsory treatment.

Research summary of tāngata whaiora and whānau perspectives on tino rangatiratanga and decision-making under the Mental Health Act.

An exploratory investigation into social inclusion and exclusion – particularly as they relate to discrimination – from the subjective and cross-cultural perspectives of people who experience mental distress in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

This study explored the issue of self-stigma (often called internalised stigma) from the perspective of people with experience of mental illness. 

This study sought to explore young people’s experiences of the nature and impacts of discrimination associated with mental health issues, and to identify strategies to reduce discrimination from a young person’s perspective.

This report identifies critical factors that enable, and more particularly sustain, open employment of mental health service users, from both the employees’ and the employers’ perspectives.

This research explores discrimination within and towards families and whānau of people diagnosed with mental illness. It also seeks to identify strategies to overcome these forms of discrimination.

This research focuses on the stories and experiences of services users who have experienced social inclusion, using them as a platform to further challenge stigma and discrimination.