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Interventions Aimed at Tackling Intellectual Disability Stigma: What Works and What Still Needs to Be Done

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Negative attitudes and discrimination remain everyday realities for many individuals with intellectual disabilities. This chapter provides an overview of interventions aimed at reducing intellectual disability stigma and encouraging more positive perceptions and interactions. Based on a multilevel model of stigma change interventions, this chapter provides an overview of interventions aimed at the intrapersonal, familial, wider interpersonal, and structural levels to reduce stigma. The quality of the evidence on the range of interventions is considered and found to be rather thin on the whole. Priorities for research and intervention are identified.

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  1. Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Shirli Werner

  2. Division of Psychology & Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK

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Werner, S., Scior, K. (2016). Interventions Aimed at Tackling Intellectual Disability Stigma: What Works and What Still Needs to Be Done. In: Scior, K., Werner, S. (eds) Intellectual Disability and Stigma. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52499-7_9

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