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Changing stigmatizing perceptions and recollections about mental illness: the effects of NAMI’s In Our Own Voice
- Authors:
- CORRIGAN Patrick W., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 46(5), October 2010, pp.517-522.
- Publisher:
- Springer
In Our Own Voice (IOOV) is a 90-min anti-stigma video that comprises face-to-face stories of challenges of mental illness and hopes and dreams commensurate with recovery. The video was reduced to a 30-min version, using information from two focus groups. This study contrasts the effects of 90- versus 30-min IOOV program against 30 min of education. Two hundred research participants were randomly assigned to one of these three conditions and completed a measure of stigmatizing perceptions and recollections. People in the education group remembered more negatives than the two IOOV groups. To control for overall response rate, a difference ratio was determined (difference in positive and negative recollection divided by overall recollections). Results showed the two IOOV conditions had significantly better ratios than education. These findings suggest the 30 min version of IOOV is as effective as the 90 min standard.
Depictions of mental illnesses in children's media
- Author:
- WAHL Otto
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 12(3), June 2003, pp.249-258.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
It has been suggested that media portrayals help to perpetuate the negative perceptions and attitudes of the public toward people living with mental illnesses. Children are significant consumers of mass media, and they may be learning about mental illnesses from their exposure to media depictions of those illnesses. This article is intended to explore how psychiatric disorders are portrayed in children's media. Studies of television, films, cartoons, and other media suggest that images and references to mental illnesses are relatively common in children's media and that such images are more often negative than positive ones. The image of persons with psychiatric disorders as unattractive, violent, and criminal, for example, appears common in children's media, and references to mental illnesses are typically used to disparage and ridicule. Although content analyses do not establish impact, it is likely that negative stereotypes are being fostered and that children are learning to respond to people with mental illnesses in avoidant and disparaging ways. Anti-stigma efforts that do not include children and do not address the media images of mental illnesses that foster unfavorable stereotypes may permit continued development of negative attitudes toward people with psychiatric disorders.
Media frames of mental illnesses: the potential impact of negative frames
- Author:
- SIEFF Elaine M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 12(3), June 2003, pp.259-269.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Mass media (e.g., television news and entertainment programming, films and newspapers) are a primary source for information about mental illnesses. The possible effects of media coverage and predominant frames in which mental illnesses are portrayed are discussed. Framing is defined as the means by which media information is organized, presented and interpreted. The literature focused on media coverage of mental illnesses and media framing is reviewed. The frequently negative frames used by the media to portray mental illnesses contribute to the development and persistence of the public's negative attitudes toward persons with mental illnesses. An obvious extension to this work is a systematic analysis of framing functions, structures and elements used in the media to describe mental illnesses. The experimental manipulation of mental illness frames and their consequences on media consumers will help to provide some understanding of how media consumers react specifically to frames of mental illnesses.