Mental Health Issues and the Media An Introduction for Health Professionals

Name: Mental Health Issues and the Media An Introduction for Health Professionals
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ISBN: 9780415325301

ISBN-10: 0415325307

ISBN-13: 9780415325301

Edition: 2006

Authors: Gary Morris

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Our ideas about mental health and illness can be informed by personal experiences but are most often formed by the prevailing attitudes of society. A wide range of contemporary media help create these attitudes and for all health professionals the ways in which they do so are of immediate concern. Health professionals need to: · be aware of media influences on their own perceptions and attitudes · take account of both the negative and positive aspects of media intervention in mental health promotion and public education · understand the way in which we all interact with media messages and how this affects both practitioners and service users Mental Health Issues and the Mediaprovides…

Book details

List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/13/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.69" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English




The mental health-media relationship



Media sources and the role of the media



Stigma, labelling and the media : the negative representation of mental health issues



Selling mental health (positive health promotion)



The news media



Literature



Film



Television



The Internet



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