Trust. He chaired the External Reference Group for the National Service Framework for Mental Health in England. His areas of research expertise include: stigma and discrimination, mental health needs assessment, the development of outcome scales, cost-effectiveness evaluation of mental health

treatments, and service user and consumer participation in mental health research. He is the author of 19 books and over 160 scientific papers.

1. Close to home: family, housing and neighbours

2. Getting personal: friendships, intimate relationships and childcare

3. It's not working: discrimination and employment

4. By a process of exclusion: discrimination in civil and social life

5. Harmful helpers: discrimination in health and social care

6. Profiting from prejudice: mental illness in the media

7. Danger or disinformation: the facts about violence and mental illness

8. 'Why try?' Self-stigmatisation, avoidance and withdrawal

9. From stigma to ignorance, prejudice and discrimination

10. What works to reduce discrimination? Challenges for service users

11. What works to reduce discrimination? Challenges for everyone