Purpose The term “Mental health literacy” is defined as knowledge and beliefs about mental
disorders which aid their recognition, management or prevention. The importance of health …

This article reviews dominant media portrayals of mental illness, the mentally ill and mental
health interventions, and examines what social, emotional and treatment-related effects …

Despite significant advances in treatment, stigma and discrimination toward persons with
mental illness and drug addiction have remained constant in past decades. Prior work …

This article analyzes two decades of research regarding the mass media's role in shaping,
perpetuating, and reducing the stigma of mental illness. It concentrates on three broad areas …

Objective In recent years, mass shootings by persons with serious mental illness have
received extensive news media coverage. The authors test the effects of news stories about …

To understand the low utilization rates of child and adolescent mental health services, it is
necessary to recognize the kinds of professional and institutional stigma that may produce …

This paper evaluates the impact of COVID-19 media coverage in mitigating its spread in
China during the early phase of the pandemic. We construct a provincial-level dataset on …

Objective: Critics of entertainment media have indicated that cinematic depictions of
schizophrenia are stereotypic and characterized by misinformation about symptoms, causes …

General public's mental health can be affected by the public policy response to a pandemic
threat. Britain, Italy and Sweden have had very distinct approaches to the COVID-19 …

The purpose of this study was to test a brief instrument to monitor the US public's attitudes
about mental illness. A SAMHSA and CDC-led panel reached consensus through an …