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Kling, Sara, and Mattias Liljeqvist. "Hur framställs psykisk ohälsa i meider? : Specialistsjuksköterskors perspektiv i psykiatrisk vård." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-36967.
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Utifrån ett holistiskt perspektiv framträder ett tydligt problem i hur ensidigt media framställer psykisk ohälsa. Genom att studera specialistsjuksköterskors erfarenheter av medias rapportering om psykisk ohälsa kan ett hittills ofta förbisett perspektiv bidra till ökad kunskap om mediers rapportering om psykisk ohälsa. Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva erfarenheter bland specialistsjuksköterskor i psykiatrisk vård av hur psykisk ohälsa framställs i medier. Föreliggande studie hade en kvalitativ design med induktiv ansats och genomfördes med semi-strukturerade intervjuer med 8 specialistsjuksköterskor i psykiatrisk vård. Resultatet visar att psykisk ohälsa är stigmatiserat och att media i många fall framställer en alltför negativ och missvisande bild av psykisk ohälsa, trots att det finns positiva perspektiv på psykisk ohälsa, främst i alternativ till traditionella medier. Det medicinska perspektivet dominerar i media och det finns en avsaknad av det psykiatriska omvårdnadsperspektivet. Konklusionen i föreliggande studie är att specialistsjuksköterskor inom psykiatrisk vård erfar medias framställning av psykisk ohälsa som negativ och missvisande. De erfar även att det medicinska perspektivet får ta mycket stor plats och att psykiatrisk omvårdnad osynliggörs. Mer forskning bör bedrivas på hur psykisk ohälsa framställs på sociala medier och hur avsaknaden av andra perspektiv än det medicinska påverkar allmänhetens förståelse för psykisk ohälsa. Journalisters perspektiv bör studeras. Specialistsjuksköterskor inom psykiatrisk vård borde beredas en större plats i media. Sjuksköterskor och sjuksköterskestudenter borde stödjas i att ge omvårdnadsperspektivet större plats såväl kliniskt som i media.
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Nairn, Raymond George Ross. "Madness, media & mental illness: a social constructionist approach." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2280.
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Background Depictions of mental illnesses in the mass media have been analysed and criticised for more than forty years with little improvement, and that has serious implications for the ongoing efforts to destigmatise both mental illnesses and those who suffer from them. Aims To examine media depictions of mental illnesses within a social constructionist framework. To identify why media depictions take the form they do and to indicate ways in which such practices may be more effectively addressed. Method Items chosen from factual media genres were subjected to discourse analysis. This form of analysis attends to the preferred meaning of the items and how that meaning is constructed within the item. Exemplars of such analysis are contrasted with the content analyses more commonly performed on media materials before reporting analyses of items from everyday media reports and of materials that were expected to be less stigmatising. Results Irrespective of the form of analysis it is found that media depictions of mental illnesses are dominated by representations of dangerousness, criminal violence, unpredictability, and social incompetence. The same features were found in a destigmatisation documentary and a series of backgrounders on mental health services, in both of which madness was utilised to create interest and drama. It is argued that these characteristics occur because media personnel, like most laypersons, represent mental illnesses as forms of madness. Conclusions That my social constructionist analysis is able to account for the lack of change in media depictions over forty years. That the preference for a public mental health approach to destigmatisation is misplaced because it is unable to address the fear generated by lay understandings of mental illnesses. That the attempt to avoid conflation of the person with the disorder in Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals beginning in 1980 was an inadequate step in an appropriate direction in that it sought to remind clinicians that a mental disorder does not make a person non-human. The thesis findings are interpreted as showing that destigmatisation requires a new way of depicting mental illnesses, one that privileges the individual's experience and their ordinary humanness.
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Chartrand, David V. "The media and mental health: media familiarity with nationwide standards for reducing mental illness and suicide." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/16189.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Journalism and Mass Communications
William Adams
Mental illness and suicide present vexing challenges for journalists who seek to elevate public understanding of public health issues and remedies. Using the theoretical frameworks of media agenda setting and issue framing, content analysis was used to examine a nationwide sample of newspapers stories for evidence of media familiarity with prevailing norms for community mental health care and suicide prevention. Stories examined showed little evidence of such expertise, leaving questions about the ability of journalists — and their readers — to differentiate between standard and substandard mental health care systems. Long-term change in public policy about mental illness and suicide prevention will likely depend on the ability of special interests to capture and keep media attention as well as media management decisions to assign mental health coverage to general assignment reporters or place it in the hands of journalists with specialized training.
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Plummer, Anna. "“What About Bob?” An Analysis of Gendered Mental Illness in a Mainstream Film Comedy." NEOMED College of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ne2gs1597767396737971.
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Cousineau, Anna Desiree. "“Madness” in the Media: How Can Print Journalists Better Report on Mental Illnesses?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700042/.
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Stereo types and stigmas of individuals with mental illnesses have proved to be a major roadblock preventing these individuals from seeking help. The news media, despite having a responsibility to accurately inform the public, has played a significant role in portraying individuals with mental illness as violent, unpredictable, dangerous, and unfit to live with the rest of “normal” society. This happens through the words journalists choose to use and the information they choose in included, and excluded, when reporting on mental health issues. This study attempts to establish a guideline that journalists can follow that will hopefully reduce the stigma of mental illness in the media, and eventually in society. This study used a 2 x 2 ANCOVA to test two independent variables (amount of labeling terms and amount of corrective information). The variables were manipulated by modifying a news article four times to produce articles with varying levels of labeling terms and corrective information. A control article was also be used. The articles were randomized and passed out to 220 undergraduate college students at the University of North Texas who completed a questionnaire, read their assigned article, and then completed a second questionnaire to determine the impact the article had on their attitudes about individuals with mental illnesses.
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Rawling, Katherine Dorothy Berry. "Visualising mental illness : gender, medicine and visual media, c.1850-1910." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542372.
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The history of madness is populated by mad women and yet, the visual record of madness is bursting with images of madmen alongside the familiar 'Ophelias' and hysterics. This thesis uses patient photographs to examine how patient identities were constructed and represented in the second half of the nineteenth century. It considers the effects of gender, class and medical discourses on how patients were constituted by images. It seeks to explain the effects of patient photography and the ways in which the medical encounter between doctor-photographer and psychiatric patient was visualised. By so doing it sheds light on photographic practices within Victorian institutions, the relationship between photography and medicine, and the various ways in which photography represented gendered mentally ill patients. The thesis draws together histories of madness and photography by exammmg photographs of patients diagnosed with mental conditions, produced from c.1850 to 1910. It is organised according to 'institution' and considers the photographs contained in British textbooks, British and French medical journals and the medical case books from two British asylums. The photographs they contain are analysed in the context of earlier attempts to visualise the insane in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century, and in the light of nonmedical photography practised in commercial studio or family environments. Psychiatric photographs were produced in vast numbers but their style, mode of production and display and, crucially, the patient identities they represent, are far from standardised or indeed predictable. This variety reflects the different priorities of the photographers, the type of patient being photographed and the contemporaneous photographic practices of individual institutions. The visual connections and differences between several types of photograph are discussed, as is their impact on the identity of the subject. It is argued that only by considering images from a variety of sources can the role and effect of photography in this context begin to be understood more fully.
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Coppock, Mary Jane. "Polarizing Narratives: Harmful Representations of Mental Illness and Bipolar in Popular Media." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/953.
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Representations of mental illness in mainstream media have historically been infantilizing and dangerous. In the last century, dominant media has perpetuated inaccurate and damaging tropes about bipolar disorder in particular, perpetuating misunderstanding and stigma. Despite this fact, art can provide an outlet through which healthy images that promote understanding and sympathy can be dispersed. My project, Polarized, presents a more accurate representation of the disorder and its effects on individuals who struggle with it, as well as their loved ones. Bipolar disorders are a group of mental illnesses that cause dramatic shifts in an individual’s mood, energy, thinking ability, and sexual drive. In popular media, bipolar is represented in a number of different problematic ways ranging from childishness to irrational violence, which provide damaging stereotypes of the bipolar community and ultimately serve to further ostracize the bipolar community. Polarized’s critique of representations of disability in hegemonic discourse is informed by true stories and histories of mental illness. The short’s narrative is fictional, inspired by my own experience as a young woman with Bipolar II and augmented with the research and memoirs of manic-depressive diagnosed clinician Kay Jamison as written in An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness.
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Vermeulen, Monique. "An investigation into the representation of the mentally ill in popular film." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/800.
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There is a common perception that media depiction of mental health and illness is overwhelmingly negative and inaccurate. Media portrayal of mental illness is also viewed as an important element in forming and influencing society’s attitudes towards mental health issues, although there is no causal link to prove this. People with mental illness are most commonly shown as being violent and aggressive. Movie stereotypes that contribute to the stigmatisation of mentally ill persons include the mental patient as rebellious free spirit, homicidal maniac, seductress, enlightened member of society, narcissistic parasite, and zoo specimen. The profession of psychiatry is, has always been, and will likely continue to be a much enjoyed subject among filmmakers and their audiences, as it tends to provide exciting and emotionally compelling opportunities to portray personal struggles feared by most of humanity. This research will analyse the entertainment media in an attempt to provide evidence to support the above statement. The research will, furthermore, analyse the manner in which entertainment media represent the mentally ill with reference to popular films invariably produced in the US
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Cross, Simon. "Mediating madness : mental illness and public discourse in current affairs television." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1999. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7252.
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This thesis examines the public character of television and the various ways it works as communication. Drawing on a case study of recent British current affairs programmes dealing with mental health issues it explores the interplay between television form and content. The first part acknowledges television as the pivotal medium of the contemporary public sphere and situates its various organisations of language and imagery at the heart of programme makers' attempts to produce meaningful and entertaining programmes. Against the grain of those who see television as an arational technology, a case is made for its relevance as a vocal space for all citizens. However, in the historical context of British broadcasting, the differential distribution of communicative entitlements entreats us to view access to discursive space as a principle which soon runs up against its limits. The second half of this thesis explores the shortcomings of this system in relation to `expert' and lay people's access to a public voice on mental health issues. The recent transition from the asylum to Community Care invites an intermingling of voices in which the authority of this or that brand of professional knowledge cannot be taken for granted. The re-entry of ex-mental patients into the community also provides programme makers with opportunities to promote new forms of social solidarity based on `thick descriptions' of the person rather than the patient. The case-study presented here suggests however, that participation in televised forms of debate and argumentation does not match the promises of post-modem rhetoric. Despite the airing of new voices and the presentation of new controversies, British television's treatment of mental illness continues to revolve around established hierarchies of knowledge and a depiction of the (ex-)mental patient as less than a fully cognizant citizen. Visual techniques play a crucial role in this process. By recycling familiar images of madness as dangerous and unpredictable, people with a history of schizophrenic illness remain enmeshed in a web of psychiatric 'otherness' which undermines their credibility as speakers.
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Little, Julianna. "“Frailty, thy name is woman”: Depictions of Female Madness." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3709.
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Concepts of mental health and normality cannot be understood apart from cultural norms and values. The most significant of cultural constructions that shape our view of madness is gender. Madness has been perceived for centuries metaphorically and symbolically as a feminine illness and continues to be gendered into the twenty-first century. Works of art and literature and psychiatric medicine influence each other as well as our understanding and perception of mental illness. Throughout history, images of mental illness in women send the message that women are weak, dangerous, and require containment. What are the cultural links between femininity and insanity, and how are they represented? Through the lenses of disciplines such as theatre criticism, feminist theory, and psychiatry, this thesis examines the history of madness as a gendered concept and its depictions in art and literature. Additionally, it will explore the representation of female madness in contemporary dramatic literature as compared to the medical model used during the era in which it was written as well as the social and cultural conditions and expectations of the period. The three plays under consideration are: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, written in 1941 by Eugene O’Neill; Fefu and Her Friends, written in 1977 by Maria Irene Fornés; and
Next to Normal, produced on Broadway in its current form in 2009 and written and scored by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitts. None of these plays tell a tidy story with a straightforward ending. In none do treatment facilities offer refuge or health professionals offer answers. Struggling characters resort to drug abuse, fall prey to internalization, or leave treatment all together, having been subjected to enough victimization. The relationship between patient and physician is depicted to be, at best, ambivalent. The themes in these plays illuminate women’s mental illness as an extensive problem with many contributing factors, and the origins of which are quite complex.
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Gaumer, Sarah. "MEDIA AND MENTAL ILLNESS: THE EFFECT OF TELEVISION ON ATTITUDES ABOUT THE MENTALLY ILL." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1399387035.
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Ritter, Erin C. "Portrayals of mental illness in primetime television and psychotropic drug commercials." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 0.26 Mb., 106 p, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=1163268081&Fmt=7&clientId=79356&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Locke, Christopher Ryan. "Public Attitudes Toward Mental Illness: An Experimental Design Examining the Media's Impact of Crime on Stigma." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1268086954.
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Von, Willigerode Maria. "Stigmatiseringen av personer med psykisk ohälsa ur psykiatripersonalens synvinkel." Thesis, Mälardalen University, Department of Social Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-234.
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Syftet med studien var att genom intervjuer med personal inom socialpsykiatrin ta reda på deras upplevelser av stigmatiseringstendenser och mediabild i relation till personer med psykisk ohälsa och till sig själva som yrkespersoner. Tidigare forskning visar på stigmatisering, diskriminering och mediapåverkan i samband med psykisk ohälsa. En meningskategorisering av insamlat intervjumaterial fann mönster i intervjuerna beträffande individsyn, stigmatiseringsuttryck, mediapåverkan samt generell okunskap om psykisk ohälsa. Resultatet bekräftar tidigare studier om okunskap och mediapåverkan samt motsäger delvis tidigare forskning gällande diskriminering av psykiatripersonal. Resultatet visar även hur personalen inom socialpsykiatrin upplever att stigmatiseringen kan minskas utifrån ökad kunskap om psykisk ohälsa och medvetenhet om varje människas värde.
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Donovan, Robin K. "Silence and Agony: A Comparison of Chronic Pain Depictions in Newspapers, Magazines, and Blogs by People with Chronic Pain." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1292457458.
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Perciful, Michael. "The Impact of Film on the Construction and Deconstruction of Mental Illness Stigmatization in Young Adults." Wright State University Professional Psychology Program / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wsupsych1345389374.
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Fellows, Jacqueline L. "Sources Say … He May Have Been Depressed and Angry: A Case Study and Content Analysis of Mental Illness Sources Used in Newspaper Coverage of Mass Shootings in 2015." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984270/.
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The increase of mass shootings in the U.S. has amplified news reporting on mental illness as a possible factor in the shootings despite no evidence linking the two issues. Sources used to explain mental illness in stories that explore the motivations of mass shooters affect audience perception. Through a qualitative content analysis of local newspaper coverage of five U.S. mass shootings in 2015, journalists linked mental illness as a possible motive through sources who were not qualified to treat or diagnose mental illness. Journalists also ignored professional guidance from the Associated Press on mental illness reporting in the context of mass shootings. Additionally, journalists assumed the audience was knowledgeable of mental illness in general terms and specific diagnoses. These findings indicate coverage of mass shootings includes inaccurate information about shooters' motives, and it also continues to frame mental illness as dangerous.
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Bohman, Isabella, and Cecilia Gustafsson. "En studie i brott: om sexualitet, etnicitet och psykisk sjukdom : en kvantitativ och kvalitativ jämförelse om hur gärningsmännen bakom två uppmärksammade flickmord representeras i Aftonbladet och på Flashback forum." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-118906.
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The main purpose of this quantitative and qualitative study A study in crime: about sexuality, ethnicity and mental illness has been to reveal the relation between how the evening newspaper Aftonbladet and the Internet forum Flashback forum represent two men who has been convicted for the murder of two underaged girls. Hence more than one sixth of the swedish population has a lot of confidence in this newspaper it has been important to see how mental illness, sexuality, masculinity and ethnicity is produced and therefore reproduced through its descriptions of these men. The central theories which have been used to visualize the representation of masculinity, sexuality, ethnicity and mental illness is R.W. Conell´s theory of hegemonic masculinity, Judith Butler´s hetereosexual matrix, semiotics, media commodification and framing. In addition, previous studies in the media reporting of the convicted rapist ”Hagamannen” and the terrorist Anders Behring Breivik as well as theory of the ideal vicitim and therefore the ideal perpretator has been relevant. The material consists of a number of articles about the resolution of the homicide of Lisa Holm in 2015 and Helén Nilsson in 2004 in which Nerijus Bilevicus and Ulf Olsson were condemned. Furthermore, comments on Flashback forum where the abovementioned cases have been discussed were analyzed. Denotation and connotation, the heterosexual matrix and the pressethical rules applied as methodological tools. In the current media landscape of 2016 newpapers´ foremost competitors of the readers’ attention are the complimentary websites and Internet forums. The comparison indicated that the users of Flashback forum discussed similar subjects as Aftonbladet regarding the previous mentioned attributes. Also, we identified that the journal more frequentely violated the pressethical rules in the describtions of the perpetrator who suffered from mental illness and was both bisexual, transsexual and also a pedofile. However, the ethnicity of the second perpetrator appeared early in the reporting of the homicide. The results of the study have shown that the mechanisms of the commodification of media were more substantial in 2004/2005, concerning the descriptions of the perpetrator. The journal in 2015/2016 does not seem to have delievered such information to satisfy the crowd in comparison to the comments on Flashback forum. This is in contrary to the admitted opinion by media scholars.
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Kling, Agnes. ""Äh, ryck upp dig!" : Grafisk gestaltning av mental ohälsa i karaktärsdesign för spel." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-13604.
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Media har visat tendenser att gestalta mental ohälsa på nedvärderande sätt gentemot karaktären. Denna studie berör hur olika grafiska gestaltningar av depression påverkar betraktarens uppfattning av karaktären. Studien riktar sig mot tillämpning inom mediet elektroniska spel. Under arbetet undersöktes tre olika gestaltningssätt – via utseende, kroppsspråk och miljö. Gestaltningarna hade två delar: Del 1 gestaltade depression; Del 2 en neutral karaktär. De ”sjuka” attributen insamlades från teoretiska källor samt studerade datorspel. Utvärdering skedde genom både enkät och intervjuer, för att nå både övergripande åsikter liksom bättre förståelse till svaren. Resultatet talade för att gestaltningen via Utseende var tydligast relaterat till depression. Gestaltning genom Miljö var däremot den som deltagarna kopplade mest till en spelbar spelkaraktär. Studien behöver dock testas mer för att ge ett pålitligt resultat. Den kan också tjäna på att bli ännu mer koncentrerad, exempelvis att fokusera på Utseende för att testa olika kombinationer av attribut, etniciteter och kroppstyper.
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Miles, Stephanie Anne. "A dual-process approach to stigma reduction using online, user-generated narratives in social media messages." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2122.
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Mental illness is a widespread public health concern. Stigma is a known barrier to recovery, and individuals often avoid seeking treatment because of it. The purpose of my research was to understand how individuals process peer-created, mental illness messages on social media, and to what extent these messages reduce stigma. I conducted two experiments based on the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) to examine attitudes related to negative beliefs about mental illness and preferred social distance from mentally ill individuals.
Argument quality and amount of elaboration influenced empathetic responses to a message. Empathy was directly associated with a decrease in stigmatized beliefs about mental illness. Individuals who perceived that the message sharer was a close, trusted friend were more likely to indicate that the original message creator was more credible. Original message creators who disclosed having a mental illness were also perceived as more credible than creators who did not disclose having a mental illness. In addition, participants who perceived that the message sharer positively endorsed the message had less stigmatized beliefs about mental illness than participants who perceived negative endorsements.
Results of this project suggest that traditional ELM variables, such as elaboration and argument quality, influence the processing and outcomes of viewing social media messages about mental illness. Several new media characteristics, such as who shares the message online and comments they attach to the message, also influence how users think about the message and influence processing outcomes.
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Andersson, Sandra Paolin, and Johanna Berg. "Hur unga flickor i åldrarna 12-19 årpåverkas psykiskt av media, i förhållande till sina kroppar : En litteraturstudie." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-9626.
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Neely, Shameka Y. "Mental Illness Knowledge, Stigma, Help Seeking Behaviors, and Perceptions of Media Portrayals of Black Culture: The Role of Spirituality and the African American Church." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1446547238.
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Lam, Sai-chung Kenneth, and 林世中. ""Use the terms of" schizophrenia, psychosis, psychotic patients in Hong Kong news media : a content analysis of printed coverage, 2002-2012." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192977.
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It can always be recognised that mass media is one of key sources of information to society. Moreover, it has a great power to affect our life. Printed media, for example, newspaper as one of media communications contains words and texts, which can also create a strong power to influence readers to receive information, including news coverage of mental illness.
The objective of this study is to analyse our selected the terms of Schizophrenia, Psychosis and Psychotic Patients from our selected three local Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong, to see the frequency and the trend of reporting incidents on news stories, and the use of language/words to portray people with mental illness on press coverage. Research questions were about 1) the change of frequency using the term of Schizophrenia, and under the same question the hypothesis was to see if using the term of Psychosis was more than Schizophrenia; 2) reviewed the term of Schizophrenia to see our selected three local newspapers whether or not choosing the term of Schizophrenia on news coverage more than Psychosis; 3) assessed both terms of Schizophrenia and Psychosis regarding incidents in all articles, the former was related to negative stories and the latter was related to good news coverage. 4) We reviewed the trend of using all keywords akin to metaphorical (words) usage in all articles. At last, 5) we also assessed all keywords in regard to the trend of using of stereotyping wordings in all papers in our selected years.
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We assessed the database of retrospective newspaper via WiseNews of electronic resource at the University of Hong Kong, to retrieve the total of 1884 articles, from chosen newspapers, for example, Apple Daily, Ming Pao Daily News and Tai Kung Pao Daily News. We retrieved those newspapers in 2002, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2012 for our research study.
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It is good to see that, since 2001 renaming in Psychosis (思覺失調), the term has been widely accepted in the public and has already been used on news coverage. In comparison with both terms of Schizophrenia (精神分裂 [症]) and Psychosis (思覺失調), we noticed that the frequency of using the name of Schizophrenia on printed media has, however, still remained higher than the term of psychosis to portray people with mental illness in all news papers [Schizophrenia – 40.2% 757/1884 /Psychosis – 24.9% 469/1884]. And we also noted that the term of Psychotic Patients was strong association with people in Schizophrenia to appear on same news coverage, according to our research findings. Meanwhile, it can be seen that using Psychosis (renaming in Chinese) on news coverage was increased gradually from 2002 – 2012, whereas using Schizophrenia was a lead in association with criminal cases, with 35/132 of unfavourable events. On the one hand, it can be noted that the trend of metaphorical usage was increased gradually from 2002 – 2012, and in all newspapers the more frequency of using metaphorical words/usage was to insult/cite someone with 46.2% (175/379 articles). On the other hand, it is not surprising to see that the more frequency of using stereotyping words was “Dangerous” or “Violence” to portray people with mental illness in all newspapers, which was highest record with 61.8% (202/327 counted articles)
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Mass media is generally recognised as key source of information to society, including media coverage of mental illness. Moreover, press media has a great power to influence us. In content analysis of our selected articles, it can be noted that in 2002 –2012, using the term of Schizophrenia was more than using Psychosis in our selected three local Chinese newspapers. It was revealed that the trend of using metaphorical (words) usage in all papers was increased gradually and the more frequency using of both terms was to insult/cite someone. It can be no doubt that inappropriate words and negative descriptive languages to portray people with mental illness on news coverage could influence people’s perception with negative towards psychotic patients. Stigma is a great impact on people with mental illness to receive treatment appropriately and can minimise their self-esteem as a result of causing social withdrawal. Family and relatives are also considerably stigmatised. Educational promotion is one of critical ways to promote mental health, to increase more public awareness and knowledge of mental illness in our society.
It could be suggested that training for journalists could be essential, in order to avoid using of sensational or negative descriptive language on news coverage of mental illness that could reduce stigma. We believe that the more people know and receive information accurate on media coverage of mental illness, the less people can form stigma in our society.published_or_final_version
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Bergendahl, Jessica, and Evelina Östman. "Ortorexia nervosa : Hälsa som blir ohälsa." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-9571.
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SAMMANFATTNING Titel: Ortorexia nervosa- Hälsa som blir ohälsa Institution: Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, Högskolan i Skövde Kurs: Examensarbete i folkhälsovetenskap, 15 högskolepoäng Författare: Bergendahl, Jessica; Östman, Evelina Handledare: Ekberg, Joakim Sidor: 23 Månad och år: 06/2014 Nyckelord: Ortorexia Nervosa, Hälsa, Psykisk ohälsa, Medias påverkan Bakgrund: En ny hälsosam livsstil börjar ofta med en god intention, men ibland kan den hälsosamma livsstilen gå för långt. Ortorexia nervosa var från början tänkt som ett sätt att benämna en grupp patienter med liknande problematik, tills det framkom att detta var något som behövde undersökas närmre. En person med ortorexi är besatt av en hälsosam diet som istället kan bli farlig. Mål: Att beskriva vad ortorexi innebär, vilken sjukdomsstatus den har samt om det finns klara direktiv kring behandling. Metod: Vi har undersökt litteratur, vetenskapliga artiklar samt genomfört intervjuer med personer som har behörig kompetens kring ortorexi. En kvalitativ innehållsanalys har använts. Resultat: Ortorexia nervosa är ingen diagnos. Det är svårt att fastställa exakt vad de utlösande faktorerna är, dock är det troligt att det handlar om ett kontrollbehov. Med hjälp av en extremt hälsosam diet skapas en känsla av att ha kontroll. Media verkar ha stor inverkan. Slutsats: Slutsaten blev att mer forskning krävs inom området för att kunna fastställa vad ortorexia nervosa egentligen är. Ortorexia nervosa anses vara när en person försöker leva för hälsosamt och genom att strikt kontrollera kosten uppstår istället ohälsa.ABSTRACT Title: Orthorexia Nervosa- Healthy turning unhealthy Department: School of Life Sciences, University of Skövde Course: University Diploma Project in Public Health Science,15 ECTS Author: Bergendahl, Jessica; Östman, Evelina Supervisor: Ekberg, Joakim Pages: 23 Month and year: 06/2014 Keywords: Orthorexia Nervosa, Health, Mental illness, Media influences Background: A healthier way of life often starts out with good intentions, but sometimes people take their healthy lifestyle too far. Orthorexia nervosa was meant to be a description for a group of people with similar problems, until it was clear that there might be more behind it. A person with orthorexia is obsessed with healthy dieting and takes it to the extreme. Aim: To investigate what orthorexia is and if there are clear guidelines about treatment. Method: We have studied literature, scientific articles, and completed interviews with people qualified in the fields of orthorexia. A qualitative study based on a content analysis was performed. Results: Orthorexia nervosa has no status of diagnosis. It is difficult to determine exactly what triggers orthorexia, however, it is likely that it is a need of control. Using an extremely healthy diet creates the feeling of being in control. Media seems to influence this. Conclusion: The conclusion was that more research is needed in order to decide what orthorexia nervosa actually stands for. Orthorexia nervosa is considered when a person tries to live as healthy as possible but by strictly controlling their diet illness occurs.
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Paterson, Brodie. "Events and social policy : an exploration of the influence of two homicides on developments in mental illness social policy in England 1985-2000." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/248.
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Background. A number of commentators (Holloway 1996 Muijen 1996a; 1996b) have suggested that two events in the form of homicides carried out by mental health service users came to exert a disproportionate influence on English mental health policy over the period 1985-2000. In particular it has been suggested that the events formed the focus for a ‘moral panic’ caused by ‘irresponsible’ and ‘sensationalist’ reporting in UK newspapers (Neal 1998; Prins and Swan 1998). Aims. In the light of such claims this study critically explores the role played by the deaths of Jonathan Zito and Isabel Schwarz play in establishing violent assaults perpetrated by people experiencing mental illness as a ‘social problem’. It examines whether a shift in the discourse on mental illness took place in UK newspapers and explores how the deaths of Isabel Schwarz were and Jonathan Zito were framed in terms of causal responsibility. Finally it evaluates what influence, if any, the deaths in question had on the social policy agenda. Design. Case study / mixed design integrating quantitative and qualitative methods. Method. Content analysis consisting of a longitudinal analysis of the nature of the representation of mental illness changed over the period in two UK newspaper. Framing a sub-type of discourse analysis examined changes in the discourse of mental illness and the effects of the emergence of the community care tragedy as a ‘new’ narrative. It was also used to examine the potential influence on social policy on mental illness of changes in societal level frames particularly the emergence of the risk society. Results. The content analysis found that mental illness appeared increasingly in the context of a threat to public safety in newspapers over the period but that the overall representation was more balanced. The framing analysis identified and evidenced a competitive process in framing the issue of homicides committed by service users with mental health problems and demonstrated the potential influence of macro level social frames on the policy making proces
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Bodin, Sofie, and Elin Kecibas. "Bortom datorskärmen : En allmän litteraturöversikt om sociala mediers positiva och negativa inverkan på tonåringars psykiska hälsa." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29124.
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The Internet has become an accessible place for teens to seek help, support and information if they are experiencing mental illness. The feeling of being anonymous can be an important reason to why teens are using internet and social media for this purpose. However, it appears through earlier studies that there may be risks involving social media as utilities for these matters. In this study we therefore examine both the risk- and protective factors that impacts on teen’s mental illnesses in relation to their use of social media as a tool for help, support and information, but also how professional social workers can increase their use of social media as a tool in their work with these teens. To be able to do this we conducted a literature review of the current available research in this field. The results presented have been analyzed with the developmental psychopathology perspective and with the theory of digital social capital. The results indicates that there are both negative and positive outcomes with the use of social media as a tool when teens are experiencing mental illness, and that there is a lack of professional social workers in social media even though they are both needed and desired.
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Blom, Josefine, and Andrea Granholm. "Sociala medier - en hjälpande eller stjälpande hand för ungdomar med psykisk ohälsa? : En kvalitativ studie med fokus på en behandlande personalens uppfattningar." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för socialt arbete och kriminologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-33197.
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Studiens syfte har varit att undersöka hur ungdomar mellan 13 och 18 år med psykisk ohälsa påverkas av sociala medier utifrån samtalsbehandlande personals perspektiv, samt hur dessa kunskaper kan användas i behandlingsarbetet. Fyra behandlare har deltagit i kvalitativa intervjuer. Resultatet visade att fördelarna med ungdomars användande av sociala medier handlar om sociala kontakter och stöttande nätverk. Nackdelarna berörde ungdomarnas ständiga tillgänglighet, jämförelse med andra och en utsatthet i form av exempelvis mobbning samt en förenklad kommunikation via de sociala medierna. Ytterligare en nackdel var att ungdomar med psykisk ohälsa kan vara extra sårbara. Gällande behandlingsarbetet beskrevs inledande kartläggningsfrågor, samtal om gränssättning samt personalutbildning om sociala medier som viktigt. Studiens resultat korrelerar huvudsakligen väl med tidigare forskning och sammantaget kan man konstatera att det är viktigt att ta dessa kunskaper i beaktande vid behandling av ungdomar med psykisk ohälsa, då de sociala medierna fyller en stor funktion i deras liv.The purpose of the study was to investigate how adolescents, aged between 13 and 18, with mental illness was affected by social media from the perspective of counsellors and how this knowledge can be used in treatment. Four counsellors participated in qualitative interviews. The results showed that the adolescents use of social media favoured their social contacts and supportive networks. Disadvantages were the adolescents’ constant accessibility, that they compare themselves with others and exposure to, for example bullying. Furthermore, adolescents with mental illness can be extra vulnerable. Regarding treatment it was reported that initial mapping questions and conversations about setting boundaries were described as important. A need for education for the counsellors about social media was also highlighted. The results correlate in the most part with previous research and, overall, it is important to take this knowledge into account when treating adolescents with mental illness.
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Modin, Sanna. "Psykisk ohälsa i media : En kritisk diskursanalys av medias framställning av unga med psykisk ohälsa." Thesis, Hälsohögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, HHJ, Avd. för socialt arbete, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-43029.
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Psykisk ohälsa bland unga ökar ständigt, tillsammans med de mediala debatterna kring ämnet. Media har en stark maktposition varför det är av vikt att kritiskt utforska massmedias framställning av det ökade folkhälsoproblemet. Syftet med studien är att studera hur svensk dagspress framställer psykisk ohälsa bland ungdomar under en ettårsperiod. Till detta används den kritiska diskursanalysen för att utforska relationen mellan språkanvändning och upprätthållandet av maktförhållanden i samhället, samt att undersöka om det är ungdomar eller sakkunniga som kommer till tals kring ämnet. Den insamlade empirin delas in i tre huvudsakliga diskurser; välfärdsdiskursen, den postmoderna diskursen samt den individualistiska diskursen. Välfärdsdiskursen visar hur det svenska välfärdssamhället misslyckas i sitt ansvar att täcka upp medborgarnas behov kring psykisk ohälsa. Den postmoderna diskursen framhäver hur ungdomarna i hög grad utsatts för strukturella stressorer i form av bland annat högre utbildning- och arbetsmarknadskrav samt sociala mediers ständiga informationsflöde. Vidare presenterar den individualistiska diskursen hur samhälleliga orsaker till psykisk ohälsa bör lösas med hjälp av individuella interventioner. I resultatet upptäcktes en avsaknad av en förebyggande diskussion, istället dominerar ett symptominriktat angreppssätt. Inom alla diskurser är det sakkunniga och professionella som till största del kommer till tals kring frågan, vilket speglar ungas utsatthet och låga maktposition i samhället. Detta återspeglar och återspeglas av kulturella trender vilket i sin tur påverkar politiska ageranden och dess funktion för det sociala arbetets praktik.Mental illness among young people is a constantly increasing problem that affects the media debate regarding the subject. Media has a strong position of power in the society today, which makes it important to critically explore its production of the expanding health problem. The aim of the study is to investigate how Swedish newspapers portraits mental illness among young people during a one-year period. The critical discourse analysis is used to explore the relationship between the use of language and the maintenance of the unequal distribution of power in the society. Furthermore, it is used to analyse if it is experts or young people who gives a voice in the matter. The result is divided in three main categories; the welfare-discourse, the postmodern discourse and the individualistic discourse. The welfare-discourse revealed how the Swedish welfare state fails regarding its obligations to cover all citizens needs regarding mental health issues. The postmodern discourse featured a society where young people are highly exposed to structural stressors as higher demands in the education and labour market and the stress enchanted by social media. The individualistic discourse presented how social causes are to be solved by individualistic interventions. The result in general showed a lack of preventive approach regarding solutions to the problem. Within all discourses, experts and professionals were the ones who mainly got a voice in the matter, which mirrors the young people’s lack of power in relation to experts. This reflect and reflects cultural trends which further leads to influence political interventions and therefore social work practices.
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Björklin, Wolff Emilia, and Jenny Jonsson. "När kunskapen inte räcker till : En kvalitativ studie av barnpsykiatrins uppfattning om användandet av sociala medier hos barn med psykisk ohälsa." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för socialt arbete och kriminologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-29885.
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Sociala medier är idag en självklar del i många barns vardag och forskning har visat en kraftig ökning av användandet under de senaste åren. Samtidigt har forskning visat att psykisk ohälsa hos barn blivit vanligare och vart tionde barn i Sverige lider av psykisk ohälsa. Utifrån detta var studiens syfte att undersöka hur professionella inom barnpsykiatrin uppfattar användandet av sociala medier vid mötet med barn. Fyra kvalitativa intervjuer med kuratorer i olika verksamheter inom barnpsykiatri har genomförts. Resultatet visade att kuratorernas upplevelser av sociala medier är att det inverkar på barns mående och att det finns en kunskapsbrist kring sociala medier. Resultatet visade även att det saknas metoder och material för att kartlägga och hantera användandet av sociala medier hos barn med ångestproblematik. Studien visade därmed att det finns ett behov inom barnpsykiatrin att utveckla arbetet med sociala medier.Today social media is a natural part of many children's everyday life and research has shown a vigorous increase of the usage. At the same time research has shown that mental illness among children has become more frequent and every tenth child suffers from a mental illness. Due to this, the aim of this study was to look into how professionals within child psychiatry experience the usage of social media when they encounter children. Four interviews with curators within child psychiatry was conducted. The results showed that curator’s experiences of social media are that they have an impact on children's mental health and that there is a lack of knowledge about social media in child psychiatry. There is also a lack of methods to map and manage the usage of social media among children.
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Long, Aaron T. "Framing and Sourcing Dynamics in Trauma Coverage: PTSD in The New York Times, 1999–2020." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1627323400479215.
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Tadisetty, Srikanth. "Prediction of Psychosis Using Big Web Data in the United States." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1532962079970169.
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Delgado, Johansson Amanda, and Tobias Stahl. "Du är vad du presterar : En kritisk diskursanalys av framställningen av psykisk ohälsa hos elitidrottarer." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160343.
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The aim of this study was to examine the depiction of mental illness with elite athletes. Mental illness has long been a sensitive object in the public's eye, but in recent years that has started to shift and the subject has destigmatized. More and more people are open and talk about their inner problems. But in one group in society the development has not been up to pace, and that is elite athletes. The study has also looked at the difference between tabloid and daily press. The theoretical framework was constructed by using the agenda setting theory, the framing theory, theories of media logic and the thoughts of news evaluation. The method used in the study was critical discourse analysis, and used in the way through out by Norman Fairclough and his three dimensional modell. A total of 38 articles from the newspapers Dagens Nyheter, Svenska dagbladet, Aftonbladet and Expressen was analyzed. The analysis found that the papers tend to portray mental illness as a negative major problem of today's society. A majority of the articles analyzed tended put the athlete aspect of the person in limelight, rather than letting the athlete just be a suffering person. They way the papers achieved to sustain the image of being a unbeatable hero by reminding the audience about the athletic achievements won, when the athlete was presented in the article. Keywords: Johan Franzén, Jenny Rissveds, mental illness, depression, concussions, concussion, eating disorder and eating disorders.
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Wåger, Carl. "ADHD och Instagram : En intervjustudie om unga människor med ADHD:s strategier för att hantera de negativa aspekterna av Instagram." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-37880.
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This study aims to investigate how people with ADHD are affected by the social media application Instagram. The experiences examined are how three Instagram users with ADHD are affected by Instagram. If they find that there are some underlying needs and motives for why they use Instagram and in which case they are. Their diagnosis also gives rise to depressive tendencies and it is therefore investigated how they handle this when using Instagram. In addition, their strategies for using Instagram are investigated. How they help them to reduce the negative impact of Instagram. The study further develops this to examine how users want to prevent problems that exist with Instagram for people with a diagnosis. The study's theoretical starting point is previous research from state agencies such as Statistics Sweden and Stockholm County Council. In addition, scientifically reviewed articles are used. The choice of study methods is qualitative interviews with a strategic selection of persons diagnosed with ADHD and a literature study. The study's three participants all have Instagram accounts where they express their ADHD diagnosis. What emerges is the participants' own opinions analyzed with the data collected. This results in an interpretive result that can open up for a discussion on the subject and describe them with ADHD's own views on the subject.Den här studien ämnar till att undersöka hur människor med ADHD påverkas av den sociala mediaapplikationen Instagram. De upplevelser som undersöks är hur tre Instagramanvändare med ADHD påverkas av Instagram. Om de upplever att det finns några bakomliggande behov och motiv till varför de använder Instagram och i sådant fall vilka de är. Deras diagnos ger även upphov till depressiva tendenser och det undersöks därför hur de hanterar detta när de använder Instagram. Tillika undersöks sedan deras strategier för användning av Instagram. Hur de hjälper dem från att minska den negativa påverkan från Instagram. Undersökningen vidareutvecklar detta till att undersöka hur användarna vill förebygga problem som finns med Instagram för människor med en diagnos. Studiens teoretiska utgångspunkt är tidigare forskning från statliga instanser såsom Statistiska Centralbyrån och Stockholms läns landsting. Utöver det används vetenskapligt granskade artiklar. Valet av studiens metoder är kvalitativa intervjuer med ett strategiskt urval av personer med diagnosen ADHD och en litteraturstudie. Studiens tre deltagare har alla Instagram-konton där de uttrycker sig om sin ADHD-diagnos. Det som framkommer är deltagarnas egna åsikter analyserat med den data som samlas in. Det resulterar i ett tolkande resultat som kan öppna upp för en diskussion om ämnet samt beskriver de med ADHD:s egna åsikter kring ämnet.
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Adolfsson, Linn, and Magdalena Engrup. ""Come out, come out, whatever you are" : En kvalitativ innehållsanalys om representationen av dissociativ identitetsstörning i film." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95484.
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Syftet med denna kvalitativa innehållsanalys är att undersöka hur stereotyper, stigmatisering och trivialisering kring psykisk störning, närmare bestämt personer med dissociativ identitetsstörning, bibehålls genom gestaltningar i film, samt hur gestaltningen skiljer sig åt inom två filmer ur olika genrer, skräck- och komedifilm. Med filmerna Mina jag och Irene och Hide and Seek som analysunderlag, och med hjälp av ett representationsteoretiskt perspektiv, applicerades ett analysschema på sekvenser ur materialet som, genom de semiotiska analysverktygen denotation och konnotation, användes för att besvara studiens forskningsfrågor. Resultatet visade att båda filmerna upprätthöll stigmatiserande och/eller trivialiserande skildringar av dissociativ identitetsstörning men att de skiljde sig åt i sitt sätt att porträttera störningen. Dessa sätt leder till olika uppfattningar om störningen men har snarlika verkliga konsekvenser.The purpose of this qualitative content analysis is to investigate how stereotypes, stigmatization and trivialization around psychological disorders, more specifically around people with dissociative identity disorder, are maintained through representation in films and how the representation differs within two different film genres, horror and comedy films. With the films Me, myself & Irene and Hide and Seek as the basis for the analysis and by using the theoretical concepts of representation, stigma and trivialization, an analysis scheme was applied to sequences from the material, which, through the semiotic analysis tools denotation and connotation, were used to answer the study's research questions. The results showed that both films maintained stigmatizing and/or trivializing depictions of dissociative identity disorder but that they differed in their way of portraying the disorder. These approaches lead to different perceptions of the disorder but have similar real-life consequences.
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Unnebo, Maja, and Jessica Trajer. "Barn och ungas psykiska ohälsa i media : En kvalitativ textanalys av tre svenska dags- och kvällstidningars framställning av barn och ungas psykiska ohälsa." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-41806.
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The purpose of this essay was to examine how mental illness among children and adolescents is conveyed in a few of the Swedish daily and evening newspapers in an attempt to create an understanding of the depiction. This was examined by analyzing 14 articles in three Swedish daily and evening newspapers, Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet during the period 2015–2019. To answer the study's purpose and research question, a qualitative text analysis was used, which was supplemented with the social constructivist perspective and the framing theory. The conclusion of the study showed that these three Swedish daily and evening newspapers tended not to present a holistic perspective on the phenomenon of children and adolescents' mental illness. The depiction was mainly about research and experts that were allowed to speak on the subject, which resulted in the description of children and adolescents' mental illness being primarily from a scientific perspective. The articles did not address the affected children and adolescents to the extent required, which meant that their perspectives were not communicated. Based on the framing theory and social constructivism, this can be interpreted as part of the maintenance of social constructions and norms around mental illness.
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Rubenking, Bridget E. "Learning From Crime Dramas: The Role of Presence and Transportation in Attitude Change." Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1210098917.
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Garcia, Carla Costa [UNESP]. "Da loucura à ciência: as imagens e a construção das notícias sobre os transtornos mentais e de comportamentos e seus personagens na Folha de S. Paulo." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89449.
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Partindo da hipótese de que o jornal é um meio heterogêneo e espaço constante de tensões entre vozes e versões empregadas na construção da narrativa noticiosa - um produto cultural, que deve ser inteligível ao público -, esta pequisa tem o objetivo de inferir porque as notícias são como são. Para isso, utiliza-se como estudo de caso 366 textos sobre os transtornos mentais e de comportamento e seus personagens veiculados pela Folha de S. Paulo em 2009. A proposta é avaliar a partir de uma temática classificada entre comunicação e saúde cuja origem é científica, mas tem implicações na vida social de seus portadores, o jornal e a notícia como meios incorporadores e disseminadores, concomitantemente, de representações sociais e enunciados da ciência. Para tanto, adota-se pesquisa bibliográfica e análise de conteúdo, com vieses quantitativo e qualitativo. A primeira é empregana na revisão bibliográfica sobre representações sociais. Teoria Unificada na Notícia, jornalismo científico e a construção histórica dos distúrbios e de suas imagens. Já a segunda tem a finalidade de identificar as matérias que temos e compreender elementos constitutivos e versões da realidade que atuam em sua produção
Presuming that the newspaper is a heterogeneous media and a constant space of tension between voices and views used in the construction of news story - a cultural product, which should be intelligible to the public - this research aims to infer why the news are as they are. For this, it used as case study 366 texts about mental and behavior disorders and the characters trasmitted by Folha de S. Paulo in 2009. The proposal is to evaluate throughout an issue classified in intersection of Communication and Health, whose origin is scientific, bus implies in the social life of their carriers, the newspaper and the news as incorporators and disseminators, concomitantly, from social representations and scientific statements. To this end, it is adopted literature review and content analysis with quantitative and qualitative biase. The first method is employed in the literature review about social representations. Unified Theory of News, scientific journalism and the historical construction of mental disorders and their images. The second aims to identify the news that we have understand the components and relaity proposition that operate in its production
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Garcia, Carla Costa. "Da loucura à ciência : as imagens e a construção das notícias sobre os transtornos mentais e de comportamentos e seus personagens na Folha de S. Paulo /." Bauru : [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89449.
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Orientador: Cláudio Bertolli FulhBanca: Maximiliano Martin Vicente
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Resumo: Partindo da hipótese de que o jornal é um meio heterogêneo e espaço constante de tensões entre vozes e versões empregadas na construção da narrativa noticiosa - um produto cultural, que deve ser inteligível ao público -, esta pequisa tem o objetivo de inferir porque as notícias são como são. Para isso, utiliza-se como estudo de caso 366 textos sobre os transtornos mentais e de comportamento e seus personagens veiculados pela Folha de S. Paulo em 2009. A proposta é avaliar a partir de uma temática classificada entre comunicação e saúde cuja origem é científica, mas tem implicações na vida social de seus portadores, o jornal e a notícia como meios incorporadores e disseminadores, concomitantemente, de representações sociais e enunciados da ciência. Para tanto, adota-se pesquisa bibliográfica e análise de conteúdo, com vieses quantitativo e qualitativo. A primeira é empregana na revisão bibliográfica sobre representações sociais. Teoria Unificada na Notícia, jornalismo científico e a construção histórica dos distúrbios e de suas imagens. Já a segunda tem a finalidade de identificar as matérias que temos e compreender elementos constitutivos e versões da realidade que atuam em sua produção
Abstract: Presuming that the newspaper is a heterogeneous media and a constant space of tension between voices and views used in the construction of news story - a cultural product, which should be intelligible to the public - this research aims to infer why the news are as they are. For this, it used as case study 366 texts about mental and behavior disorders and the characters trasmitted by Folha de S. Paulo in 2009. The proposal is to evaluate throughout an issue classified in intersection of Communication and Health, whose origin is scientific, bus implies in the social life of their carriers, the newspaper and the news as incorporators and disseminators, concomitantly, from social representations and scientific statements. To this end, it is adopted literature review and content analysis with quantitative and qualitative biase. The first method is employed in the literature review about social representations. Unified Theory of News, scientific journalism and the historical construction of mental disorders and their images. The second aims to identify the news that we have understand the components and relaity proposition that operate in its production
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Eriksson, Johanna, and Annie Österdahl. "Porträttering av karaktärer med psykisk ohälsa i skräckfilm : En semiotisk analys av porträttering av psykisk ohälsa i skräckfilm." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-42907.
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Syftet av denna kvalitativa studie var att undersöka hur karaktärer som framställs med psykisk ohälsa porträtteras i skräckfilm samt hur de övriga karaktärerna i filmerna förhåller sig till dem. Med hjälp av semiotiska analysverktyg, neoformalism och stereotypiska kategorier som teori och metod avslöjade vi underliggande meningar i filmerna genom att observera karaktärernas beteende och estetiska egenskaper i bakgrunden. Analysen delades upp i tre kategorier; porträttering av avvikande beteende, omgivningens förhållningssätt och miljö, detta för att göra det enklare att få fram ett resultat. Materialet bestod av filmerna The Shining (1980) och Lights Out (2016) och valdes eftersom båda filmerna porträtterar karaktärer med psykisk ohälsa. Resultatet påvisade att det i båda utvalda karaktärernas beteende går att identifiera samtliga av de utvalda stereotyper som presenterats i teorikapitlet. Det framkom även att majoriteten av de konnotationer som identifierades var negativa vilket även speglades i omgivningens förhållningssätt till karaktärerna. The Shining visade en större skillnad gällande positiva och negativa konnotationer som identifierats mellan början och slutet av filmen medan Lights Out inte visade någon förändring.The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how characters with mental illnesses are portrayed in horror movies and also the other characters attitude towards them. With the help of semiotic analyzing tools, neoformalism and stereotypical categories as both theory and method did we discover the underlaying meanings of the movies by observing the characters behavior and aesthetic characteristics in the background. The analysis was split in three categories; portrayal of deviant behavior, the other characters attitude towards the characters and environment, this to make it easier to get a result. The material consisted of the movies The Shining (1980) and Lights Out (2016) and were chosen since both movies portray characters with mental illnesses. The result did show that in both of the chosen characters behaviors was it possible to identify all of the stereotypes presented earlier in the theory chapter. It also appeared that the majority of all connotations that were identified was negative which was also reflected in the surrounding characters attitude towards the chosen characters. The Shining showed a bigger difference regarding positive and negative connotations between the beginning and ending of the movie while Lights Out barely showed any difference between them at all.
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Melin, Matilda. "Hur visuellt material används för att påverka känslor och upplevelser i stunden : En analys av nio Instagraminlägg på temat välmående." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43958.
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I denna uppsats undersöks och analyseras nio Instagraminlägg på temat välmående utifrån teorin om visuell perception och visuellt berättande. Syftet är att undersöka hur företag, med Instagraminlägg på temat välmående, kan ge personer verktyg att förbättra sitt eget välmående. Frågeställningen som uppsatsen söker svar på är; Hur kan Instagraminlägg på temat välmående användas för att påverka känslor och upplevelser positivt i stunden? En kvalitativ fokusgruppsintervju används för att undersöka fyra individers upplevelser och känslor kring inläggen. Resultatet av undersökningen visar att ansiktsuttryck är ett bra medel för att få deltagarna att reflektera över sitt eget mående. När ansiktsuttrycken inte passar ihop med text och sammanhang upplevs inlägget som förvirrande även om färgerna i sig kändes lugnande eller upplyftande. Till vidare forskning hade det därför varit intressant att undersöka mer kring hur och varför ansiktsuttryck påverkar välmåendet.
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Palanijafi, Chinoor. "Attityder till psykisk ohälsa bland studenter med invandrarbakgrund från Mellanöstern : Vad studenter med invandrarbakgrund från Mellanöstern har för syn på psykisk ohälsa." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-39202.
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The aim of this study was to examine what students with a foreign background think about mental illness (students at Karlstad University, between the ages of 19-25 years old), that are born in the Middle-East or have parents from the Middle-East. These students have been living in Sweden for more than five years. It was a qualitative study with ten interviews, and the interviews were analyzed thematically. In order to perform the interviews, an interview guide was used. The interview guide consisted of 20-30 questions, depending on how the interview went and whether any supplementary questions appeared, and also contained a short clip from the movie “A beautiful mind” Ron Howard, 2001. The results showed that there is a connection between people with a foreign background and a lack of knowledge about mental illness. The themes that appeared in the study were the following: conflict and fear, shame, repudiation, ridicule and the last theme where the view of mental illness. All the respondents in this study had experienced a negative perception of people with mental illness in social media. The main conclusion of the study was that in the respondents’ native countries mental illness is not acknowledged, people disassociate themselves from sufferers, and these are stigmatized instead of being offered the right care or support.
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Nielsen, Camilla, and Martina Möllerstedt. "Audiovisuell Perception : Uttryckt genom ämnet psykisk ohälsa." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för teknik och estetik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-18302.
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Detta kandidatarbete är format för att belysa den subjektiva upplevelsen av omvärlden hos människor med psykisk ohälsa, hur deras varseblivning kan förvrängas i svåra omständigheter. Då man uppfattar att antalet individer med psykisk ohälsa har ökat de senaste åren, så finns ett behov av att skapa ett nytt sätt, eller redskap för dem som behöver eventuella hjälpmedel och allmän förståelse i samhället. Med hjälp av kunskapen bakom perception utifrån bl.a. Yvonne Eriksson och Michel Chion kompetenser så vill vi ta fram ett sätt att placera in människor i en emotionellt påverkande miljö. Genom olika metoder så som intervjuer och kritiskt skapande har det framtagits hur vi skulle kunna gestalta en subjektiv upplevelse genom att betrakta audiovisuell varseblivning som verktyg i nämnd gestaltning. Avslutningsvis presenterar vi hur forskningen framställs under prövandet av gestaltnings prototyper och under diskussionen tas det även upp hur andra förhållningssätt hade kunnat forma projektet och dess resultat.This bachelor thesis is formed to illustrate the subjective experience that people with mental illness have of the surrounding world, for how their perception can be distorted in bad circumstances. When one observes the number of individuals with mental illness rising the last couple of years, then we might need a new way off, or tool to show how those individuals do need eventual help and understanding in society. We want to create a way to place people with in an emotionally affecting environment, this with help of the knowledge behind perception with among others Yvonne Eriksson and Michel Chion´s competence. With different methods such as interviews and critical making its been formulated a way of how we would be able to mould a subjective experience with the concept that audiovisual perception as a tool in the configured artwork. At the end we present how the research show up while we examen the designed prototypes and under the discussion we bring up how other approaches may have formed the project and its result.
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Davidson, Daryl Malarry. "Joey Connor Larry Darrell: A Television/Streaming Series a Clef." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1578318342890128.
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Ljungkvist, Sanna, and Bodil Rönnewald. "Hälsofrämjande effekter med informations- och kommunikationstekniska verktyg och sociala medier för den psykiska hälsan hos unga vuxna : En strukturerad litteraturstudie." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-18526.
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Introduktion: Den psykiska ohälsan bland unga vuxna har ökat under de senaste tio åren och är en av Sveriges största folkhälsoutmaningar. Globalt sett är 322 miljoner människor drabbade av depression och 264 miljoner är drabbade av ångestsjukdom. Ett delmål bland de globala hållbarhetsmålen är att den mentala hälsan skall beaktas och främjas med preventiva insatser. Ytterligare ett steg för att uppnå en god och jämlik hälsa är den av Sverige antagna Vision e-hälsa 2025 som innebär att Sverige skall bli världsledande i att tillvarata möjligheterna med digitalisering. Informations- och kommunikationsteknologin [IKT] och sociala medier ökar möjligheten till interaktion, oberoende av tid och rum. Syfte: Att beskriva hälsofrämjande effekter som sociala medier och IKT-verktyg kan ha för att minska den psykiska ohälsan bland unga vuxna. Metod: En strukturerad litteraturstudie baserad på 20 vetenskapliga originalartiklar som inhämtats från databaserna Pubmed och Cinahl. Artiklarna har analyserats med en tematisk analys. Resultat: Sex teman med främjande effekt på den psykiska hälsan urskildes och grupperades i tre kategorier. Kategorierna var kunskapsutveckling, psykologiska aspekter och användbara verktyg. Teman var personlig utveckling och förändring, ökad kunskap och förmåga, trygghet och anonymitet, motivation och engagemang, social tillhörighet och socialt stöd samt lättillgänglighet och användarvänlighet. Slutsats: Resultatet visar att det finns hälsofrämjande effekter inom det digitala området. Teknikanvändningen kan bidra till implementering av digitala hälsofrämjande insatser i syfte att minska den mentala ohälsan hos unga vuxna. Dock finns lite forskning inom området och fler studier behövs för att få full effekt av digitaliseringens möjligheter.Introduction: The mental ill-health of young adults has increased over the past ten years and is one of Sweden's largest public health challenges. Globally, 322 million people are suffering from depression and 264 million are suffering from anxiety disorder. One of the global sustainability goals is that mental health must be considered and promoted with preventive measures. Another step to achieve good and equal health is Vision e-health 2025, in which Sweden is aiming to become a world leader in utilizing the opportunities of digitalisation. Information and communication technology [ICT] and social media increase the possibility of interaction, regardless of time and space. Aim: To describe health-promoting effects that social media and ICT tools can have to alliviate the mental ill-health of young adults. Method: A structured literature study based on 20 scientific original articles obtained from the PubMed and CINAHL databases. The articles have been analyzed with a thematic analysis. Results: Six themes with a promoting effect on mental health were identified and grouped into three categories. The categories were knowledge development, psychological aspects, and useful tools. The themes were personal development and change, increased knowledge and ability, security and anonymity, motivation and engagement, social belonging, and social support, as well as easy accessibility and user-friendliness. Conclusion: The result shows that health-promoting effects are evident in the digital field. The use of technology can contribute to the implementation of digital health promotion efforts aimed at alleviating the mental ill-health of young adults. However, research in the field is limited and more studies are needed to achieve the full effect of the opportunities of digitisation.
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Nilsson, Louise, and Evelina Eriksson. "”Instagramvänligt vet väl alla vad det är?” : en kvalitativ studie om unga kvinnors förändrade uppväxtvillkor genom sociala medier ur ett folkhälsoperspektiv." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för hälsovetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-18323.
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Studien byggde på associationen mellan att de som främst använde sociala medier, målgruppen unga kvinnor i åldrarna 16 till 25 år, även var den samhällsgrupp som dominerade i psykisk ohälsa. Forskning kring varför målgruppen lider av psykisk ohälsa mer än andra samhällsgrupper är bristande. Det är samtidigt känt att ungas uppväxtmiljö spelar en betydande roll för deras psykiska hälsa. Sociala medier inkluderas inte som en sådan miljö, trots att unga kvinnor idag spenderar minst 3 timmar där dagligen. Detta motiverade studiens syfte, att undersöka unga kvinnors upplevelser kring sociala medier som uppväxtmiljö i relation till sin identitet och hälsa. Kvalitativ metod möjliggjorde insamling av material genom semistrukturerade intervjuer i fokusgrupper. Studiens resultat fann att unga kvinnor upplever sociala medier som en miljö lika verklighetstrogen som andra fysiskt anknutna uppväxtmiljöer. Studiens resultat redogör även för upplevelser av psykisk ohälsa i samband med sociala medier, men att en hög självkänsla fungerar som en skyddande faktor. Konklusionen redogör för om det finns bestämningsfaktorer för hälsa på sociala medier, bör dessa kunna betraktas som påverkbara förutsatt att de upptäcks och dokumenteras. Därför föreslås framtida hälsoarbete med fokus på säker navigering för unga på sociala medier. Konklusionen påvisar vikten av att folkhälsovetenskapens forskning fortgår i linje med den rådande samhällsutvecklingen som i studien förstås som digitaliserad, detta för att inte missa värdefull kunskap kring vad som leder eller avbryter kurs mot psykisk ohälsa.The study’s background was based on the association between those who mainly used social media, young women between the ages of 16 and 25, were also the group that dominated in mental illness. Current research on why young women suffers from mental illness more than others is inadequate. Although, it is well-known that environments that young people integrates with growing up plays a significant role in youths mental health. Despite that young women spend at least 3 hours there daily, social media is not included as such environment. This motivated the study's purpose, to investigate young women's experiences about social media as an emerging environment in relation to their identity and health. Qualitative methodology enabled the collection of material through semistructured interviews in focus groups. The study found that young women perceive social media as an environment as realistic as any other environments they interact with growing up. The results of the study also describe the experiences of mental illness associated with social media, but that a high self-esteem serves as a protective factor. The conclusion explains whether there are determinants of health on social media, these should be considered as impactable provided they are discovered and documented. Therefore, future health work is proposed focusing on safe navigation for young people on social media. The conclusion demonstrates the importance of public health science research continuing in line with current social development, which in the study is understood to be digitized, in order not to lose valuable knowledge about what leads or interrupts courses against mental illness.
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Karlsson, Clara, and Alma Shapiro. "SKAMlig ohälsa : En studie i hur psykisk ohälsa representeras i webbserien SKAM." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Medier, ljudteknik och teater, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-63863.
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This essay examines how the Norwegian web series SKAM presents mental illness; how discourse structures concerning mental illnesses are consolidated and challenged. Our analysis examines seasons one, two and three. The essay is based on Stuart Hall's representation theory, Michel Foucault's theories about madness, and Norman Fairclough's discourse theory. The starting point of the methodology used in this study is a critical discourse analysis based on Norman Fairclough's three-dimensional model. The analysis primarily examines three levels: textual level, dialogues of the characters, and visual expression apparent in the scenography of the series. We analyze how the format is used, how the story is distributed through web and social media, and how this relates to a larger social context in addition to how the narrative of mental illness is inevitably part of cultural, institutional, and social order. Our findings reveal that SKAM reinforces cultural beliefs about mental ill health by representing mental illnesses as taboo and stigmatized as well as as being a problem that is (primarily) at the individual level. Mental illness in the series is presented as a threat to community norms where mental ill health is presented at an individual level and not as a product of society's constructed desires or structural problems. The series presents very limited help for the mentally ill. The absence of acceptance of and cure for the mentally ill causes them to wind up outside society and they have greater difficulty contributing in manners similar to those of healthy, working people.Denna uppsats undersöker hur webbserien SKAM representerar psykisk ohälsa; på vilket sätt diskursiva konstruktioner kring psykiska sjukdomar befästs och utmanas. För att analysera detta undersöks säsong ett, två och tre. Uppsatsen bygger på Stuart Halls representationsteori, Michel Foucaults teorier kring vansinnet och Norman Faircloughs diskursteori. Den metodologi som används för studien är en kritisk diskursanalys där Norman Faircloughs tredimensionella modell är utgångspunkt. Analysen sker främst på tre olika nivåer: textuell nivå; karaktärernas dialoger och seriens visuella uttryck. Hur formatet används; hur berättelsen distribueras genom webb och sociala medier. Samt hur detta sker i en större social kontext; hur berättelsen om psykisk ohälsa ofrånkomligen också är en del av en kulturell, institutionell och samhällelig ordning. Vårt resultat visar att SKAM befäster kulturella föreställningar kring psykisk ohälsa genom att representera psykiska sjukdomar som tabubelagda och stigmatiserade samt som ett problem som (främst) ligger på individnivå. De psykiskt sjuka i serien framställs som hot mot samhällets normer där den psykiska ohälsan läggs på individnivå och inte som en produkt av samhällets konstruerade begär eller strukturella problem. Mycket begränsad hjälp till psykiskt sjuka presenteras i serien. Utlämnandet av acceptans och botemedel för de psykiskt sjuka medför att de hamnar utanför samhället och får svårare att bidra på samma sätt som en frisk, arbetande person kan.
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Sherman, Catherine A. "Depictions of Mental Disorder in Mainstream American Film 1988-2010." 2012. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/etd,156375.
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The following qualitative research study examined visual and thematic depictions of mental disorder in mainstream American film from 1988 to 2010. The research was an extension of an earlier investigation on portrayals of psychological disability in Hollywood movies (Levers, 1988, 2001). The theoretical and historical grounding for the project included Sander Gilman's (1982) scholarship on madness in the pictorial arts, the history and treatment of mental disorder over the course of time, social constructionism and the media, and research on media depictions of mental illness. The author employed two content analysis instruments (Levers, 1988, 2001) to record the appearance of icons, stereotypes, and positive portrayals of mental illness in 14 feature-length American films, which contain scenes of psychiatric hospitalization. Each film became a case study, and for each case, the author included content analysis findings, plot and character summaries, and discussion on mental disorder representation through images, speech, and themes. The multiple cases culminated in a filmography, which can be a resource for individuals interested in, and concerned about, the nature in which mental disorder is portrayed in popular, contemporary movies. The results from this study indicate that iconic and stereotypical representations of mental disorder have remained consistent since Levers' (1988, 2001) inquiries. The author identified 60 of 61 icons listed on the Icons of Madness viewing rubric (Levers, 1988, 2001) and all stereotypes and positive portrayals on the Thematic Portrayals of Mental Disorder viewing rubric (Levers, 1988, 2001). More specifically, the four most commonly depicted icons and the top five stereotypes were the same in both the present and Levers' (1988, 2001) studies. The one notable difference between these and Levers' (1988, 2001) results was the increased frequency of positive portrayals of mental illness; more positive portrayals occurred in this investigation as compared to Levers' earlier research. New icons, stereotypes, and positive portrayals of mental disorder not originally listed on the viewing rubrics were identified, too. The author discusses the present findings in light of future research possibilities, counselor education, and client advocacy.School of Education;
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Olstead, Riley L. "Making 'madness' the discursive construction of 'mental illness' in the Canadian press /." 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ67741.
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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2001. Graduate Programme in Sociology.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-134). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ67741.
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"Mad Minds: Theorizing the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality and Mental Illness in Contemporary Media Discourse." Doctoral diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.49237.
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abstract: This project analyzes contemporary U.S. mental health discourse as an assemblage that constantly renegotiates the normative subject through the production and regulation of intersectional mentally ill subjects. It uses feminist disability and biopolitical theoretical frameworks to explore how media discourses of mental illness reveal the regulation of mentally ill subjects in relationship to intersections of gender, sexuality, and race. These discourses constitute a biopolitical technology that genders, racializes, and regulates mental illness. This regulation not only reveals the cultural boundaries around who is designated as “mentally ill” (and how they are designated as such), but it also demonstrates how mental illness is normalized when attached to certain bodies in specific contexts, yet perceived as a threat to the social body when attached to other bodies in other contexts.
In order to explore this assemblage, this project is organized around four foundational questions: How is mental illness produced, surveilled, and differentially regulated as a social formation within medicine and policy? How does media reproduce and renegotiate these medical and political mental health discourses? How do these mental health discourses intersect with gender, race, and sexuality? How does our assemblage of cultural, medical, and political discourse produce, observe, and regulate intersectional mentally ill subjects in relationship to shifting ideals of normative subjecthood?
This project answers these questions over the course of several case studies, each of which explores a set of thematically linked texts as a window into understanding how mental illness operates intersectionally and biopolitically in cultural discourses and social institutions. The first section establishes a broad theoretical framework for articulating how discourses of gender and sexuality are central to the production of mental illness in the United States today. The second section explores how this intersection of gender, sexuality, and mental illness is observed and regulated through social institutions like the workplace, the nation-state, and the carceral system. The final section explores emergent discourses of mental illness that move us away from centering individual mentally healthy subjects as idealized entities and toward understanding mental and emotional well-being as a collective social enterprise.Dissertation/Thesis
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Almeida, Maria de Lurdes Gomes de. "Até onde chega a voz da rádio-aurora?" Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/4482.
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Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada ao ISPA - Instituto UniversitárioIntrodução: O Estigma Social face à doença mental e aos seus portadores, constitui um problema multidimensional, que se reflete em todas as áreas da vida da pessoa. Sendo os meios de comunicação a maior fonte de informação do público, podem ser promotores na diminuição das barreiras de reabilitação e integração social da pessoa com doença mental. Objetivo: Averiguar se os níveis de crenças negativas face à doença mental e aos sujeitos portadores da mesma, diminuem significativamente após a escuta de um programa de rádio realizado por pessoas com doença mental. Método: Participantes: 30 sujeitos, funcionários públicos ativos, com diversas habilitações literárias, 27-63 anos. Amostra não probabilística por conveniência, que nunca tenha ouvido o programa. Delineamento: Estudo quasi-esperimental comparativo (com Préteste e Pós-teste). Instrumentos: Questionário Sócio-Demográfico, Inventário de Crenças acerca da Doença Mental (ICDM), e dois programas da Rádio Auora – A Outra Voz. Procedimento: Aplicação do ICDM antes e depois da audição dos dois programas de rádio. Resultados: os níveis de crenças estigmatizadoras acerca da doença mental diminuiu significativamente em cinco das seis dimensões em estudos. Conclusões:A Rádio Aurora - A Outra Voz é eficaz no combate ao estigma social face à doença mental, sendo promotor de mudanças positivas quanto à representação social das pessoas com doença mental.
ABSTRACT: Introduction: Social stigma towards mental illness leads to a multidimensional problem, which reflects in person's every life area. Social Media are the public's biggest source of information and therefore could promote social integration and lead to decrease barriers related do people with mental disorder. Objective: Evaluate negative belief's level regard to mental illness and subjects who have them, verifying if they decrease significantly after listening a radio program realized by people with mental disorder. Method: Participants: 30 subjects, from public function and with mental illness. Multiple scholarity. 27-63 years old. Convenience sample. Participants haven't previously the radio show. Design: Comparative quasiexperimental study. Materials: Sociodemographic questionnaire. Beliefs about Mental Illness Inventory (ICDM), Two Radio Aurora Program - The Other Voice. Procedure: ICDM application before and after participant's listening of the program. Results: Stigmatized beliefs about mental illness decreased significantly in five of the six study dimensions. Conclusions: Aurora Radio - The Other Voice, is effective in decreasing social stigma and also promoting positive changes in social representations towards mental illness.