Key Question Flashcards
What is the Key Question?
How are mental health issues portrayed in the media?
What do time to change aim to do?
improve public attitudes and behaviour towards people with mental health problems and reduce the amount of discrimination that people with mental health problems report in their personal relationships, social lives and at work.
How does Time to change do these things?
working with champions of mental health, schools, colleges, and youth sector organisations. They encourage workplaces to make a public commitment, working to make robust plans, empowering employee champions, and providing the tools to deliver lasting change.
What celebrity portrays media in a positive light?
Stephen Fry talked about living with bipolar disorder and supports mental health charities like Time To Change. Applying social learning theory to this effectively, the use of models such as him can help the public also start to change their opinions.
What did 1989 Signorielli find about mental health portrayal?
72 percent of characters with a mental illness depicted in television were violent, and other studies showed them as unemployed or failing at work.
What did Diefenbach in 1997 find about mental health portrayal.
study was conducted over two weeks and found that 32 percent of programmes had at least one character with a mental illness and they were ten times more violent than the general population of television characters.
What did Levers 2001 find about mental health portrayal?
In the media in areas such as films, mental health is portrayed in stereotypical ways like passive, pathetic or comical; this is what Levers 2001 study found in a content analysis of Hollywood over the last 50 years.
