GAUGING THE MENTAL HEALTH CONTENT OF THE MASS MEDIA
In: Journalism quarterly: JQ ; devoted to research in journalism and mass communication, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 191-201
ISSN: 0196-3031, 0022-5533
In: Journalism quarterly: JQ ; devoted to research in journalism and mass communication, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 191-201
ISSN: 0196-3031, 0022-5533
In: Journalism quarterly, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 191-201
Content categories were developed and used to explore what mass media are saying about mental health problems. Radio and TV samples were found to carry larger percentages of relevant material than newspaper and magazine samples, and certain kinds of attitudes seemed to dominate in all media.
Can there be 'narrow' mental content, that is entirely determined by the goings-on inside the head of the thinker? This book argues not, and defends instead a thoroughgoing externalism: the entanglement of our minds with the external world runs so deep that no internal component of mentality can easily be cordoned off.
At the time of writing (mid-May 2020), mental health charities around the world have experienced an unprecedented surge in demand. At the same time, record-high numbers of people are turning to social media to maintain personal connections due to restrictions on physical movement. But organizations like the mental health charity Mind and even the UK Government have expressed concerns about the possible strain on mental health that may come from spending more time online during COVID-19. These concerns are unsurprising, as debates about the link between heavy social media use and mental illness raged long before the pandemic. But our newly heightened reliance on platforms to replace face-to-face communication has created even more pressure for social media companies to heighten their safety measures and protect their most vulnerable users. To develop and enact these changes, social media companies are reliant on their content moderation workforces, but the COVID-19 pandemic has presented them with two related conundrums: (1) recent changes to content moderation workforces means platforms are likely to be less safe than they were before the pandemic and (2) some of the policies designed to make social media platforms safer for people's mental health are no longer possible to enforce. This Social Media + Society: 2K essay will address these two challenges in depth.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Transaction Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Care as Culture -- THE FLUID WORLD OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE -- THE STATE-OF-THE-ART IN DIAGNOSIS -- SCHOOLS OF CARE AS CULTURES -- SO WHAT? -- How TO THINK ABOUT CULTURES OF HEALING -- WHAT WE MIGHT WISH FOR -- WHERE WE WILL COME OUT -- Chapter Two: Problems and Patients, 1844-1963 -- INSANITY, THE ASYLUMS, AND THE FIRST MEDICAL SPECIALTY -- DOCTORS FOR THE INSANE -- NERVE DOCTORS, A NEW DISEASE, AND THE DREAM OF SCIENCE -- URBANIZING PSYCHIATRY AND EXPANDING ITS SCOPE -- THE RISE OF NEW MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONS -- TREATING INSANITY: BASTION OF MEDICINE -- THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION: POST-WORLD WAR II CRUSADES FOR MENTAL HEALTH -- Chapter Three: The Faded Glory of Psychoanalysis -- DEFINING PSYCHOANALYSIS -- THE PSYCHOANALYTIC PROCESS -- PSYCHOANALYTIC ENCULTURATION -- BEING A PERSON IN PSYCHOANALYTIC CULTURE -- PSYCHOANALYTIC VALUES -- THE SCIENTIFIC POVERTY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS -- A CULTURE IN CHAOS -- Chapter Four: Behaviorism's Failed Imperialism -- PRINCIPLES OF BEHAVIORISM -- CULTURAL DISPARITIES -- THE BEHAVIORIST VIEW OF LIFE -- BEHAVIORIST VALUES -- THE SCIENTIFIC STATUS OF BEHAVIORISM -- BEHAVIOR THERAPY AND MENTALISM -- THE PLACE OF BEHAVIOR THERAPY -- CULTURE AND TEMPERAMENT -- Chapter Five: The Middlebrow Land of Cognitive Therapy -- BECK'S COGNITIVE THERAPY -- THE TAMING OF MIND -- THE VALUES OF COGNITIVE CULTURE -- THE SCIENTIFIC STATUS OF COGNITIVE THERAPY -- THE APPEAL OF COGNITIVE THERAPY -- EVALUATING COGNITIVE THERAPY -- COGNITIVE THERAPY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM -- Chapter Six: Biological Psychiatry's Confusion of Tongues -- HOW BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY RALLIED -- BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY'S CONCEPT OF MENTAL ILLNESS -- THE CLINICAL PRACTICE OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
In: Journalism & mass communication quarterly: JMCQ, Band 93, Heft 3, S. 644-658
ISSN: 2161-430X
We examined the impact of media messages about mass shootings on participants' attitudes toward people with mental illness. In a randomized experiment, 293 college students were randomly assigned to read one of five news articles (i.e., one control article, four articles about mass shootings) and answer questions about attitudes toward people with mental illness. Groups significantly differed on attitudes related to perceived dangerousness/social distance and perceived discrimination/belief in recovery, but not insurance/treatment beliefs. The majority of news about mass shootings, even if the article does not mention mental illness or contains expert information, may contribute to negative attitudes.
In: World medical & health policy, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 59-82
ISSN: 1948-4682
In: http://www.cpementalhealth.com/content/1/1/13
Abstract Background This paper is a part of the work of the group that carried out the report "The state of the mental health in Europe" (European Commission, DG Health and Consumer Protection, 2004) and deals with the mental health issues related to the migration in Europe. Methods The paper tries to describe the social, demographical and political context of the emigration in Europe and tries to indicate the needs and (mental) health problems of immigrants. A review of the literature concerning mental health risk in immigrant is also carried out. The work also faces the problem of the health policy toward immigrants and the access to health care services in Europe. Results Migration during the 1990s has been high and characterised by new migrations. Some countries in Europe, that have been traditionally exporters of migrants have shifted to become importers. Migration has been a key force in the demographic changes of the European population. The policy of closed borders do not stop migration, but rather seems to set up a new underclass of so-called "illegals" who are suppressed and highly exploited. In 2000 there were also 392.200 asylum applications. The reviewed literature among mental health risk in some immigrant groups in Europe concerns: 1) highest rate of schizophrenia; suicide; alcohol and drug abuse; access of psychiatric facilities; risk of anxiety and depression; mental health of EU immigrants once they returned to their country; early EU immigrants in today disadvantaged countries; refugees and mental health Due to the different condition of migration concerning variables as: motivation to migrations (e.g. settler, refugees, gastarbeiters); distance for the host culture; ability to develop mediating structures; legal residential status it is impossible to consider "migrants" as a homogeneous group concerning the risk for mental illness. In this sense, psychosocial studies should be undertaken to identify those factors which may under given conditions, imply an increased risk of psychiatric disorders and influence seeking for psychiatric care. Comments and Remarks Despite in the migrants some vulnerable groups were identified with respect to health problems, in many European countries there are migrants who fall outside the existing health and social services, something which is particularly true for asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants. In order to address these deficiencies, it is necessary to provide with an adequate financing and a continuity of the grants for research into the multicultural health demand. Finally, there is to highlight the importance of adopting an integrated approach to mental health .
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BackgroundNational guidelines are being produced at an increasing rate, and politicians and managers are expected to promote these guidelines and their implementation in clinical work. However, research seldom deals with how decision-makers can perceive these guidelines or their challenges in a cultural context. Therefore, the aim of this study was twofold: to investigate how well Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) reflected the empirical reality of mental healthcare and to gain an extended understanding of the perceptions of decision-makers operating within this context, in regard to the implementation of evidence-based guidelines.MethodsThe study took place in the southeast of Sweden and employed a qualitative design. The data were collected through 23 interviews with politicians and managers working either in the county council or in the municipalities. The transcribed text was analysed iteratively and in two distinct phases, first deductively and second inductively by means of qualitative content analysis.ResultsOur deductive analysis showed that the text strongly reflected two out of three categorisation matrices, i.e. evidence and context representing the PARIHS framework. However, the key element of facilitation was poorly mirrored in the text. Results from the inductive analysis can be seen in light of the main category sitting on the fence; thus, the informants' perceptions reflected ambivalence and contradiction. This was illustrated by conflicting views and differences in culture and ideology, a feeling of security in tradition, a certain amount of resistance to change and a lack of role clarity and clear directions. Together, our two analyses provide a rich description of an organisational culture that is highly unlikely to facilitate the implementation of the national guidelines, together with a distrust of the source behind such guidelines, which stands in stark contrast to the high confidence in the knowledge of experienced people in authority within the ...
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National guidelines are being produced at an increasing rate, and politicians and managers are expected to promote these guidelines and their implementation in clinical work. However, research seldom deals with how decision-makers can perceive these guidelines or their challenges in a cultural context. Therefore, the aim of this study was twofold: to investigate how well Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) reflected the empirical reality of mental healthcare and to gain an extended understanding of the perceptions of decision-makers operating within this context, in regard to the implementation of evidence-based guidelines.
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In: http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/9/1/4
Abstract The goal of this paper is to both understand and depathologize clinically significant mental distress related to criminalized contact with psychoactive biotic substances by employing a framework known as critical political ecology of health and disease from the subdiscipline of medical geography. The political ecology of disease framework joins disease ecology with the power-calculus of political economy and calls for situating health-related phenomena in their broad social and economic context, demonstrating how large-scale global processes are at work at the local level, and giving due attention to historical analysis in understanding the relevant human-environment relations. Critical approaches to the political ecology of health and disease have the potential to incorporate ever-broadening social, political, economic, and cultural factors to challenge traditional causes, definitions, and sociomedical understandings of disease. Inspired by the patient-centered medical diagnosis critiques in medical geography, this paper will use a critical political ecology of disease approach to challenge certain prevailing sociomedical interpretations of disease, or more specifically, mental disorder, found in the field of substance abuse diagnostics and the related American punitive public policy regimes of substance abuse prevention and control, with regards to the use of biotic substances. It will do this by first critically interrogating the concept of "substances" and grounding them in an ecological context, reviewing the history of both the development of modern substance control laws and modern substance abuse diagnostics, and understanding the biogeographic dimensions of such approaches. It closes with proposing a non-criminalizing public health approach for regulating human close contact with psychoactive substances using the example of cannabis use.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Our Human Experience -- 2 The Naturalness of Distress -- 3 Jettisoning Normal -- 4 Rethinking Diagnosis -- 5 What Shall We Call You? -- 6 The Mental Disorder Labeling Fraud -- 7 Chemicals versus Medication -- 8 On Meds -- 9 On Cause and Effect -- 10 Life Purpose, Meaning, and Value -- 11 Setting the Bar -- 12 The Human E xperience Specialist -- 13 Twelve Shifts for Professionals -- 14 Institutions and Communities of Care -- 15 The "Mental Disorders" of Childhood -- 16 Understanding "Madness" -- 17 Alternatives to Diagnosis -- 18 The Brooklyn Project -- 19 Twenty Keys to a Mental Health Revolution -- 20 The Future of Your Mental Health -- Suggested Reading -- Index
In: Community mental health review: covering the fields of psychiatry, psychology, social work, nursing, law and allied health fields, Band 2, Heft 5, S. 25-26
In: Community mental health review: covering the fields of psychiatry, psychology, social work, nursing, law and allied health fields, Band 2, Heft 4, S. 22-22
In: Community mental health review: covering the fields of psychiatry, psychology, social work, nursing, law and allied health fields, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 22-22