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Mindshift: a guide to open-minded media coverage of mental health
- Author:
- MIND OUT FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Mind Out for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide is for journalists, editors and other people in the media who want to address some of the important challenges and opportunities in reporting mental health issues. Using working examples, practical advice and checklists for action, it aims to help people in the media to break down rather than reinforce stigma, stereotypes and misunderstanding.
The tyranny of expert language
- Author:
- HARPER Dave
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 113, January 2002, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Asks who chooses the words we use to talk about mental health problems and looks at some of the social effects of the language we use.
The enemy within
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.11.02, 2002, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Highlights how many teenagers are frightened to admit they are suffering from mental health problems due to the stigma attached.
Psychiatric medication: use, attitudes and effect in social work students and clinicians
- Authors:
- DAVIS-BERMAN Jennifer, PESTELLO H. Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Mental Health, 1(2), 2002, pp.31-42.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This exploratory, descriptive study assessed psychiatric medication use in two samples. Students in three social work courses and practicing social workers in an American midwestern city were surveyed by mail. Respondents were asked to identify symptoms, psychiatric medication use, effectiveness of drug therapy, side effects, stigma, and to rate the impact of psychiatric medication use on theircurrent or future social work practice. The results indicated that depression and anxiety were common, especially in the social work student sample, with approximately 20 to 25 percent of the sample having taken psychiatric medication. These numbers were even higher when herbal preparations were considered. Both samples reported that medication was helpful, but that taking it was stigmatizing. They also felt, however, that their experience with medication had a positive impact on their current or future career as social workers. Further descriptive results and implications for social work practice, education, and research are presented.
The DSM IV you, but not IV me
- Author:
- FEWSTER Gerry
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Care Forum, 31(6), December 2002, pp.365-380.
- Publisher:
- Springer
In this article a proponent of child and youth care draws upon his own personal, academic, and professional experience to consider the empirical, existential, and ethical implications of classifying and labeling children. From this perspective, the efficacy of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic Statistical Manual for Mental Disorder) is diagnosed, discussed, and dismissed.
Psychological factors in relatives of people with mental illness
- Authors:
- OSTMAN Margareta, KJELLIN Lars
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 181(12), December 2002, pp.494-498.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Stigma affects not only people with mental illnesses, but their families as well. Understanding how stigma affects family members in terms of both their psychological response to the ill person and their contacts with psychiatric services will improve interactions with the family. In a Swedish multi-centre study, 162 relatives of patients in acute psychiatric wards following both voluntary and compulsory admissions were interviewed concerning psychological factors related to stigma. A majority of relatives experienced psychological factors of stigma by association. Eighteen per cent of the relatives had at times thought that the patient would be better off dead, and 10% had experienced suicidal thoughts. Stigma by association was greater in relatives experiencing mental health problems of their own, and was unaffected by patient background characteristics.
Let's be mindful of stigma
- Author:
- BAILEY Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.11.02, 2002, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A Royal College of Psychiatrists campaign is looking to encourage the public to be more tolerant of people with mental health problems The campaign is unique among the current anti-stigma campaigns in that it is aimed not only at the public but also at the medical and caring professions. It has been targeting doctors and other health care professionals who are just as likely as any of us to stigmatise people with, for example, drug addiction problems or eating disorders.
Scare in the community
- Author:
- SIMPSON Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 98(39), September 2002, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article looks at the reaction to the government's draft mental health Bill. It considers whether a patient would be comfortable telling his/her GP about any mental health problem if compulsory detention becomes more widespread.
Bringing difference into deliberation? Disabled people survivors and local governance
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.319-331.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article discusses the engagement of disabled people and mental health service users/survivors in the process of participatory democracy. The article considers how notions of "legitimate participants" are constructed within official discourse, and how those can be challenged by autonomous groups of disabled people. It also explores assumptions about appropriate forms of deliberation within participation forums and how an appeal to rational debate can exclude the emotional content of the experience of living with mental health problems from deliberation about mental health policy.
What is the future of the psychiatry of learning disability?
- Author:
- HOLLINS Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 26(8), August 2002, pp.283-284.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
As the stigma associated with learning difficulties diminishes and public services become more inclusive psychiatrists must be aware of embracing those changes. The author concludes that the value of psychiatry lies in its clinical relevance,