key question Flashcards
What is the key question?
How are mental health issues portrayed in the media?
What is Time to Change and what to they say?
Time to Change is an organisation set up to influence public attitudes to mental health issues.
They say that the way mental health is portrayed in the media is incredibly powerful in educating and influencing the public.
What did Signorielli find?
Signorielli, in 1989, found that 72% of characters with a mental illness depicted in prime-time TV were violent.
How was the New Zealand study conducted? What did they find?
It was conducted using a thematic analysis of mental health on TV.
They found danger/aggression, unpredictability, incompetence and childlike to be common themes, with the overall portrayal of mental illness as ‘outstandingly negative.’
