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Follow the Money: The Missing Link in the Booming Coverage of Mental Health

Tanmoy Goswami

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 36 pp.

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Media & Mental Health: Using Mass Media to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness

Scott Parrott

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2023), viii, 166 pp.

"The mass media are an important source of information about mental health, yet television shows, news stories, social media posts, and other media fare often perpetuate stereotypes and misunderstandings about mental illness. For 70 years, scholars in media studies, psychology, sociology, and other ... more

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Mental Health Reporting: A Toolkit for Media Professionals in Nigeria

Mental Health KAFE;Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID);Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria (APN) (2023), 61 pp.

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Ageing and the Media: International Perspectives

Virpi Ylänne (ed.)

Bristol: Policy Press (2022), 234 pp.

"Media representations of ageing play a role in stereotype formation and even reinforce them. Encountering these stereotypes can negatively impact the self-esteem, health status, physical wellbeing and cognitive performance of older people. This international collection examines different dimensions ... more

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Health Communication and Disease in Africa: Beliefs, Traditions and Stigma

Bankole Falade, Mercy Murire (eds.)

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 401 pp.

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Radio y salud mental en América Latina
Inspiring Practice

Tito Ballesteros López, Sara Makowski

Buenos Aires: Teseopress (2021), 225 pp.

"Las 13 experiencias de radios de salud mental que se exponen aquí, han sido un medio terapéutico que a la fecha no ha logrado ser reconocida de manera relevante por las formas hegemónicas establecidas encaminadas al tratamiento de padecimientos mentales, pero la buena noticia es que este texto h ... more

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Manual para radialistas impacientes: Apuntes sobre producción radial comunitaria desde Vilardevoz

Montevideo: Radio Vilardevoz (2021), 42 pp.

"Hacer comunicación participativa en Radio Vilardevoz es aprender a tomar la palabra, una palabra que ha sido encerrada y empastillada por ser considerada “delirante” o “falta de valor”. Aquí aprendemos que nuestra palabra vale y hacer radio nos permite buscar la forma de hacer llegar nues ... more

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Acompañamiento al proyecto radial “Giacoya al aire”: Promoviendo la generación de dispositivos alternativos en salud mental

María Agustina Laborda Bia

Universidad de la República Uruguay (2021), 25 pp.

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Lebensmüde, todestrunken: Suizid, Freitod und Selbstmord in Film und Serie

Martin Poltrum, Bernd Rieken, Otto Teischel (eds.)

Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer (2020), xxiii, 561 pp.

"Das Thema Suizid spielt in der Weltliteratur eine große Rolle: In Shakespeares Werk kommen 13 Freitode vor, in der Bibel sind elf Selbsttötungen zu finden. Auch der Spielfilm interessiert sich seit jeher für den Topos der Lebensmüdigkeit und Todessehnsucht: Das American Film Institute zählt an ... more

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Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia

Andrew C. Billings, Scott Parrott (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2020), viii, 296 pp.

"When we think about the "pictures in our heads" that media create and perpetuate, what images are we truly referencing? Issues of media stereotypes and representation (both past and present) are crucial to advancing media literacy. 'Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia' becomes one-stop sho ... more

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Guidance for Covering Self-Harm in the Media

Samaritans (2020), 3 pp.

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Creating Evidence-Based Youth Mental Health Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Description of the Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania

Stanley Kutcher, Kevin Perkins, Heather Gilberds, Michael Udedi, Omary Ubuguyu, Tasiana Njau, Rex Chapota, Mina Hashish

Frontiers in Psychiatry, volume 10, issue 542 (2019), 8 pp.

"Addressing depression in young people is a health-care policy need in sub-Saharan Africa. There exists poor mental health literacy, high levels of stigma, and weak capacity at the community level to address this health-care need. These challenges are significant barriers to accessing mental health ... care for depression, soon to be the largest single contributor to the global burden of disease. We here describe an innovative approach that addresses these issues simultaneously while concurrently strengthening key mental health components in existing education and health-care systems as successfully applied in Malawi and replicated in Tanzania. Improving the pathway to care for young people with depression requires the following: improving mental health literacy (MHL) of communities, youth, and teachers; enhancing case identification and linking schools to community health clinics; improving the capacity of community health-care providers to identify, diagnose, and effectively treat depression in youth. Funded by Grand Challenges Canada, we developed and applied a program called “An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Challenge of Depression Among the Youth in Malawi and Tanzania” (IACD). This was an example of, a horizontally integrated pathway to care model designed to be applied in low-resource settings. The model is designed to 1) improve awareness/knowledge of mental health and mental disorders (especially depression) in communities; 2) enhance mental health literacy among youth and teachers within schools; 3) enhance capacity for teachers to identify students with possible depression; 4) create linkages between schools and community health clinics for improved access to mental health care for youth identified with possible depression; and 5) enhance the capacity of community-based health-care providers to identify, diagnose, and effectively treat youth with depression. With the use of interactive, youth-informed weekly radio programs, mental health curriculum training for teachers and peer educators in secondary schools, and a clinical competency training program for community-based health workers, the innovation created a “hub and spoke” model for improving mental health care for young people. Positive results obtained in Malawi and replicated in Tanzania suggest that this approach may provide an effective and potentially sustainable framework for enhancing youth mental health care, thus providing a policy ready framework that can be considered for application in sub-Saharan Africa." (Abstract) more

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WHO’s Media Guidelines in the Press and in Public Perception

Kuang-Kuo Chang, Eric Freedman

Journal of Media Ethics, volume 33, issue 1 (2018), pp. 14-25

"This study based on a content analysis and a nationwide survey examines Taiwan’s suicide coverage and general public evaluations of the World Health Organization media guidelines, alongside the copycat effect. Key findings show the daily newspaper Apple Daily essentially failed to follow the guid ... more

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Guía de estilo sobre salud mental para medios de comunicación: Las palabras sí importan
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M. Fábregas, A. Tafur, A. Guillén, L. Bolaños, J. L. Méndez, P. Fernández de Sevilla

Madrid: Confederación Salud Mental España (2018), 57 pp.

"Esta guía de estilo [que] tiene como objetivo ofrecer a periodistas datos y claves sobre la manera más adecuada para informar acerca de temas o aspectos relacionados con la salud mental. Con el fin de que los y las profesionales de la comunicación puedan generar información veraz, contrastada y ... more

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Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing
Inspiring Practice

Veronica Baxter, Katharine E. Low (eds.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury (2017), xxiii, 315 pp.

"Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing ... more

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Evaluation Approaches for Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Programs

Nicole K. Eberhart, Jennifer L. Cerully, Amy L. Shearer, Sandra H. Berry, M. Audrey Burnam, Patricia A. Ebener

Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation (2017), ix, 81 pp.

"The goal of this handbook is to provide guidance to practitioners and organizations interested in evaluating mental health prevention and early intervention (PEI) programs. In the course of developing an evaluation plan for a series of PEI programs implemented statewide by the California Mental Hea ... more

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Interactive Radio Program Report: An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania

Heather Gilberds, Adena Brown, Mark Leclair

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2016), 23 pp.

"Here we discuss a unique and innovative radio-based approach to improving mental health literacy and creating a demand for mental health services—part of a larger project called 'An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania'. Grounded in theories of so ... cial and behavior change communication and edutainment, and leveraging participatory methodologies, Farm Radio International and partners Teen Mental Health and Farm Radio Trust in Malawi worked with local radio broadcasters in Malawi and Tanzania to design and deliver weekly, interactive youth radio shows about mental health. Ongoing engagement with the content, and deliberation over the messages, was facilitated through SMS feedback mechanisms, and mobile polls and quizzes delivered through the radio stations, along with school-based radio listening clubs that met weekly to listen to the programs and discuss the themes in a group. Over the course of the 45-month project, the radio shows gained immense popularity, in large part because they talked about issues that are important to youth, and incorporated the language youth use and music they prefer. The programs attracted an average of 500,000 listeners each week, and received tens of thousands of text messages and Facebook posts by young people giving feedback, telling the radio hosts about what topics they would like to hear about, and asking questions about mental health or requesting to be connected with a mental health expert. The impact of the radio was measured according to whether and to what extent the interactive media programs play a role in triggering or facilitating drivers of the process of change. These drivers include bringing about improvements in knowledge and attitudes, mobilizing a social movement, and facilitating greater social and public support to put mental health on the agenda as a topic of conversation, grounded in new understandings and new knowledge. Our findings demonstrate that an interactive radio campaign can have a marked effect on improving knowledge, decreasing stigma, and increasing demand for mental health services among youth in sub-Saharan Africa. Youth who listened to the radio programs fare better than their peers in understanding the signs and symptoms of mental health disorders and in knowing where to go if they or someone they know needs help. Further, interactive radio programs can have a direct impact on reducing stigmatizing attitudes, frequently recognized as a crucial element in promoting improved access to care." (Executive summary) more

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Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre

Jenny Hughes, Helen Nicholson (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2016), xiv, 278 pp.

"This collection offers fresh perspectives on the aesthetics, politics and histories of applied theatre. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the book illuminates theatre in a diverse range of global contexts and regions. Divided into three sections - histories and cultural memorie ... more

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Global Mental Health Communications Toolkit

Agnes Becker, S. Usmani, G. Ryan, M. De Silva

London: Mental Health Innovation Network;London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (2015), 27 pp.

"This toolkit aims to help global mental health researchers communicate their findings to their stakeholders. The principles in this toolkit can be applied to all stakeholders, including policy-makers, and to key messages about your project’s implementation and policy influence activities. This to ... more

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The Media: Improving How People with Mental Health Problems Are Represented in the Media. Summary of Impact and Learning.

Time to Change (2015), 5 pp.

"Our media advisory service was set up to provide advice and support on mental health storylines and documentaries. We inputted into 75 soap opera storylines, as well as mental health seasons for BBC 3 and Channel 4. We also developed an online resource for media professionals, and supported media o ... more

Radio y salud mental en América Latina Inspiring Practice

Guía de estilo sobre salud mental para medios de comunicación: Las palabras sí importan Key Guidance

Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing Inspiring Practice

Radio y salud mental en América Latina
Inspiring Practice

Guía de estilo sobre salud mental para medios de comunicación: Las palabras sí importan
Key Guidance

Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing
Inspiring Practice