David L. Vogel is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Communication Studies program at Iowa State University. He founded the Self-Stigma Research Collaborative to assist scholars from around the world in conducting cutting-edge research on self-stigma and its relationship with mental illness and help-seeking. Nathaniel G. Wade is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Counseling Psychology program at Iowa State University. He has developed and tested interventions to reduce stigma associated with seeking therapy and to promote forgiveness of self and others.

• 1. Introduction to the handbook of stigma and mental health David Vogel and Nathaniel Wade; 2. Theoretical models to understand stigma of mental illness Lindsey Sheehan, Carlo Palermo and Patrick Corrigan; 3. Disentangling mental illness and help seeking stigmas Rachel Brenner, Maddie Egli and Joseph Hammer; 4. Measurement of mental illness stigma and discrimination Elaine Brohan, Maria Milenov, Ioannis Bakolis, Sara Evans-Lacko, Brandon Kohrt, and Graham Thornicroft; 5. Time trends in public stigma Georg Schomerus and Matthias, Angermeyer; 6. Consequences of the self-stigma of mental illness Jennifer Boyd, Manuel López, Clara González-Sanguino, J. Irene Harris and Isaiah Sampson; 7. Self-stigma of seeking help: A meta-analysis Daniel Lannin and Jacqueline Bible; 8. Stigma and suicide Philip Batterham, Alison Calear, and Ella Kurz; 9. Intellectual disability stigma: The state of the evidence Shirli Werner and Katrina Scior; 10. The intersection of mental health stigma and marginalized identities Courtney Andrysiak, Jennifer Cherry, Jessica Salmonsen and Lauren Mizock; 11. Stigma and mental health in ethnic minority populations Lonnie Snowden, Genevieve Graaf, Latocia Keyes and Amanda Ryan; 12. Mental health stigma amongst LGBTQ+ populations Carlos Vidales and Ashley MacBeth; 13. Unpacking cultural influences on stigma of people with mental illness between group oriented and individual-oriented cultures Winnie Mak and Ben Yu; 14. All the world's a stage: men, masculinity, and mental health stigma Stephen Wester; 15. Understanding and reducing the stigma of mental health problems and of treatment among military personnel Thomas Britt and Zachary Klinefelter; 16. Stigma of seeking mental health services and related constructs in older versus younger adults Corey Mackenzie, Nicole DelRosario and Melissa Krook; 17. Stigma and mental health in the abrahamic religious traditions Lily Mathison, Russell Jackson and Nathaniel Wade; 18. Interventions to reduce mental illness stigma and discrimination at the person-level for individuals and small groups Sarah Parry, Elaine Brohan, Petra Gronholm and Graham Thornicroft; 19. Population-based interventions to reduce the stigma of mental illness Gaia Sampogna, Andrea Fiorillo, Lisa Giannelli and Claire Henderson; 20. Interventions to reduce help-seeking stigma for mental health conditions Jane Hahn, Lina-Jolien Peter, Vanessa Juergensen, Georg Schomerus and Sara Evans-Lacko; 21. Self-affirmation interventions Andrew Seidman; 22. Mindfulness and self-compassion interventions to address mental health stigma Patrick Heath; 23. What is left to be done: key points, future directions, and new innovations Nathaniel Wade and David Vogel.

'The Cambridge Handbook of Stigma and Mental Health provides an authoritative, up-to-date overview of stigma and mental health research written by leading researchers from around the world. It provides a classic and current overview of research as well as future directions.' Nursel Topkaya, Associate Professor, Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey