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Georg Schomerus

Georg Schomerus

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
53
Citations
13106
World Ranking
2276
National Ranking
64

Overview

Georg Schomerus is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and primarily conducts research in the field of psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, general health professions, psychiatry, and mental health. Their work encompasses key themes related to mental health treatment and access, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, psychiatric care and mental health services, health and medical studies, schizophrenia research and treatment, COVID-19 and mental health, and broader health, psychology, and well-being topics.

Their research has been published extensively in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Psychiatrische Praxis
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Das Gesundheitswesen
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Georg Schomerus include:

  • "Similarities and Differences of Mental Health in Women and Men: A Systematic Review of Findings in Three Large German Cohorts" (2021), Frontiers in Public Health
  • "Stigmatization of people with alcohol use disorders: An updated systematic review of population studies" (2021), Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • "The stigma of alcohol-related liver disease and its impact on healthcare" (2022), Journal of Hepatology
  • "Continuum beliefs and mental illness stigma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlation and intervention studies" (2021), Psychological Medicine
  • "Ready, Willing and Able? An Investigation of the Theory of Planned Behaviour in Help-Seeking for a Community Sample with Current Untreated Depressive Symptoms" (2020), Prevention Science

Frequent collaborators of Schomerus include:

  • Sven Speerforck
  • Silke Schmidt
  • Holger Muehlan
  • Toni Fleischer
  • Christian Sander

In addition to journal articles, Georg Schomerus has contributed to academic books published by Cambridge University Press and Psychiatrie Verlag eBooks. These include:

  • "The Cambridge Handbook of Stigma and Mental Health" (2022), published by Cambridge University Press
  • "Ambulante Gruppentherapie für Männer mit Depression" (2020), published by Psychiatrie Verlag eBooks

Best Publications

  • Evolution of public attitudes about mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    G. Schomerus;C. Schwahn;A. Holzinger;P. W. Corrigan

  • The Stigma of Alcohol Dependence Compared with Other Mental Disorders: A Review of Population Studies

    Georg Schomerus;Michael Lucht;Anita Holzinger;Herbert Matschinger

  • Biogenetic explanations and public acceptance of mental illness: systematic review of population studies

    Matthias C. Angermeyer;Anita Holzinger;Mauro G. Carta;Georg Schomerus

  • Stigma and its impact on help-seeking for mental disorders: what do we know?

    Georg Schomerus;Matthias C. Angermeyer

  • The stigma of psychiatric treatment and help-seeking intentions for depression

    Georg Schomerus;Herbert Matschinger;Matthias C. Angermeyer

  • Attitudes towards psychiatric treatment and people with mental illness: changes over two decades

    Matthias C. Angermeyer;Herbert Matschinger;Georg Schomerus

  • Self-stigma in alcohol dependence: consequences for drinking-refusal self-efficacy.

    Georg Schomerus;Patrick W. Corrigan;Thomas Klauer;Philipp Kuwert

  • The stigma of obesity in the general public and its implications for public health - a systematic review.

    Claudia Sikorski;Melanie Luppa;Marie Kaiser;Heide Glaesmer

  • Public attitudes towards psychiatry and psychiatric treatment at the beginning of the 21st century: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population surveys

    Matthias C. Angermeyer;Sandra van der Auwera;Mauro G. Carta;Georg Schomerus

  • The downside of tobacco control? Smoking and self-stigma: A systematic review.

    Rebecca J. Evans-Polce;Joao M. Castaldelli-Maia;Georg Schomerus;Sara E. Evans-Lacko

  • Stigma as a barrier to recognizing personal mental illness and seeking help: a prospective study among untreated persons with mental illness.

    Georg Schomerus;Susanne Stolzenburg;Simone Freitag;Sven Speerforck

  • Causal beliefs of the public and social acceptance of persons with mental illness: a comparative analysis of schizophrenia, depression and alcohol dependence

    G. Schomerus;H. Matschinger;M. C. Angermeyer

  • Continuum beliefs and stigmatizing attitudes towards persons with schizophrenia, depression and alcohol dependence

    Georg Schomerus;Herbert Matschinger;Herbert Matschinger;Matthias C. Angermeyer

  • Attitudes that determine willingness to seek psychiatric help for depression: a representative population survey applying the Theory of Planned Behaviour.

    G. Schomerus;H. Matschinger;M. C. Angermeyer

  • The stigma of alcohol-related liver disease and its impact on healthcare.

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  • Gender differences in public beliefs and attitudes about mental disorder in western countries: a systematic review of population studies.

    A. Holzinger;F. Floris;G. Schomerus;M. G. Carta

  • Similarities and Differences of Mental Health in Women and Men: A Systematic Review of Findings in Three Large German Cohorts.

    Daniëlle Otten;Ana N. Tibubos;Georg Schomerus;Elmar Brähler

  • Developing a research agenda for reducing the stigma of addictions, part II: Lessons from the mental health stigma literature

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Georg Schomerus;Valery Shuman;Dana Kraus

  • Collective levels of stigma and national suicide rates in 25 European countries.

    G. Schomerus;S. Evans-Lacko;N. Rüsch;R. Mojtabai

  • Stigmatization of people with alcohol use disorders: An updated systematic review of population studies.

    Carolin Kilian;Jakob Manthey;Jakob Manthey;Jakob Manthey;Sinclair Carr;Franz Hanschmidt

  • Attitudes toward mental health help seeking as predictors of future help-seeking behavior and use of mental health treatments

    Ramin Mojtabai;Sara Evans-Lacko;Georg Schomerus;Graham Thornicroft

  • An online intervention using information on the mental health-mental illness continuum to reduce stigma

    G. Schomerus;M.C. Angermeyer;S.E. Baumeister;S. Stolzenburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Silke Schmidt
Silke Schmidt University of Greifswald
Mauro Giovanni Carta
Mauro Giovanni Carta University of Cagliari
Melanie Luppa
Melanie Luppa Leipzig University
Manfred E. Beutel
Manfred E. Beutel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Elmar Brähler
Elmar Brähler Leipzig University
Hans-Helmut König
Hans-Helmut König Universität Hamburg
Patrick W. Corrigan
Patrick W. Corrigan Illinois Institute of Technology
Mondher Toumi
Mondher Toumi Aix-Marseille University
Heide Glaesmer
Heide Glaesmer Leipzig University
Hans-Jörgen Grabe
Hans-Jörgen Grabe Greifswald University Hospital

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