Clinical practical

Question 1

What is the clinical practical?

Answer 1

Do media portrayals of mental illness show patients to be more negative and aggressive to real life case studies?

Question 2

What is the aim of the clinical practical?

Answer 2

Is towards media producer in order to realise the effect on how they are presenting people with mental illness and the effect it would have on the views of someone with mental illness in real life.

Question 3

What is a one taled hypothesis of the clinical practical?

Answer 3

Fictional media portrayals of mental illness show patients to be significantly more negative and aggressive compared to real life studies.

Question 4

What ficitional media was used in the clinical practical?

Answer 4

Girl Interrupted, Joker, One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest

Question 5

What real media was used in the clinical practical?

Answer 5

Gerals case study
Heather case study
By reason on insanity - Louis Theroux

Question 6

Why were the media footage chosen?

Answer 6

• Use video media only
• Video clips are less than 15 mins long
• All clips show an interation with others
• Fictional clips were theoretically released films
• Clips were created over a variety of years

Question 7

What was the porcedure in the clinical practical?

Answer 7

• Define catgrories/ codes. The summative approach to qualitive content analysis starts with identifying certain key words or content in the soruces.
• The frequency of these keywords/ contents is then quantified.

Question 8

What are some examples of categories that we looked at observing?

Answer 8

• Laughing
  -Rapid emotional shift
• Shouting
• Pushing
• Discussion without violence
  etc

Question 9

What did we do after we counted how many times we saw these key words in either the fictional or real media?

Answer 9

Latent content analysis

Question 10

What is latent content analysis on One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest?

Answer 10

• Mental institution
• Nurse Ratchet (villain) supervising group therapy
• Introduces us to a variety of symptoms and personalities

Question 11

What is latent content analysis on By reason on insanity?

Answer 11

• Inmates who have commited crimes (NGRI)
  Louis speak to inmate Jonathan
• Jonathan has SZ and killed his father
• Jonathan tells us about treatment and talk about his father- calm conversation shows the effectiveness of mental health treatments

Question 12

What is a reference to a previous reseach?

Answer 12

Wilson et al analyses prime time television drama over a 1 year period and identified 10 themes, of which 9 were negative; dangerous and unpredicatble were most common