OBJECTIVES: Structural stigma and discrimination occur when an institution like a
newspaper, rather than an individual, promulgates stigmatizing messages about mental …

The media are often identified as partially responsible for increasing the stigma of mental
illness through their negatively focused representations. For many years, training programs …

Objective: To evaluate a media intervention designed to improve one newspaper's portrayal
of mental illnesses, specifically, schizophrenia. The project was part of an international …

Because the public gets much of its knowledge of mental illness from the news media, it is
important to understand what those media report about mental illnesses. It is also useful to …

Newspapers are a primary source of information about a variety of topics, including mental
illnesses. A study of 1999 newspapers revealed that dangerousness is the most common …

Winner of the 1996 Gustavus Myers Award for an Outstanding Book on Human Rights in
North America" Media Madness is a most timely, readable, and useful book, exposing, as it …

Objectives: The overarching aim of this article is to assess media portrayals of mental illness
in Canada. We hypothesise that portrayals have improved over time, related to the various …

In this study, we examine newspaper coverage of mental illness in children and adults taken
from 6 weeks during a 1-year period. Articles were coded for (1) type of article;(2) types of …

ABSTRACT A quantitative content analysis examined the portrayal of schizophrenia in eight
of the most read online news publications in the United States. The analysis documented the …

Background Recent years have seen a number of attempts to reduce the stigma related to
mental illness; the media can play a significant role in perpetuating this stigma. This paper …