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This chapter presents data on public knowledge and attitudes towards mental disorders from three national surveys carried out in Australia, Austria, and Germany. It compares the results to those from other surveys and discusses the implications for the optimal distribution of mental health services. All three surveys examined beliefs about pharmacological treatments and found negative opinions. In all three surveys, the public's beliefs about psychotherapy were, by contrast, predominantly favorable. The surveys asked about prognosis with and without treatment. They also investigated attitudes towards people with mental disorders. The effects of these variables are interesting because they suggest possibilities for change in knowledge and beliefs. Age group differences may be due to cohort effects and, if so, suggest the direction in which beliefs may move in the future, while education and contact with mental disorders suggest ways of producing change.
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