clinical practical Flashcards

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what did previous research show about how mental illness is portrayed in the media?

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  • stuart found that the media consistently show a overwhelmingly dramatic and distorted image of mental illness
  • this has consequences for self esteem and overall recovery
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what was the research question?

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  • does the media sensationalise mental illness in a negative way compared to the reality of mental illness
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what was the sample of sources used?

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  • 3 factual sources e.g. Gerald had a meeting to stay in the hospitals
  • 3 fictional sources e.g. a beautiful mind (2001)
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what was the summative approach used?

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  • define the categories/ codes
  • frequency of these categories then quantified and counted (manifest content)
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what was the procedure we used?

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  • selected 3 real life cases and 3 fictional cases
  • we wrote transcripts of media cases
  • defined categories, verbal aggression = shouting and threats, physical aggression = hitting and pushing
  • read through transcripts and counted the frequency of key terms (manifest content)
  • latent content = some themes we recorded the context which occurs
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what were some of the comparisons found between the clips?

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  • same length of clips for fair comparison (8 mins)
  • most sources female but 2 genders in each condition
  • most people of similar ages
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what were the conclusions about verbal aggression in both fictional and real life cases?

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  • fictional = 47%
  • real life = 29%
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what did the qualitative findings show?

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  • in real life cases a reoccuring latent theme is abandonment whereas there isn’t always a reason in fictional films
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where was more aggression shown, fictional or real life?

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  • fictional
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what is an issue with low generalisability?

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  • the sources used were all secondary from 1999-2017 as well as two real life cases
  • media portrayal may have changed over time
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what is a strength of the data collected in the study?

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  • both qual and quant data gathered e.g. tally of acts and latent content
  • triangulation can occur
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what is a strength of operationalisation and a CA?

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  • counting the number of behaviours as they appeared which were fully operationalised before analysis
  • CA = some behaviours may be missed
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what is a strength of reliability?

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  • content analysis with coding schemes which were clearly operationalised and using pre-existing sources which can be repeated on multiple occasions to check behaviours
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what is an issue with subjectivity of the clips?

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  • only used selected clips from entire films
  • researcher bias may occur
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what is a strength of ethics?

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  • no participants used as it was secondary data
  • not causing any additional harm
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