Reinforcing stereotypes: How the focus on forensic cases in news reporting may influence public attitudes towards the mentally ill

Angermeyer, Matthias C.; Schulze, Beate

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“…Over the last 20 years, there has been an increasing interest in the role of printed media in conveying negative attitudes towards people with mental illness [13,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Although qualitative studies dealing with the stigma of mental illness in printed media have mainly used content analysis or discourse analysis [26], there is no standardised measurement of the stigma of mental illness in printed media, particularly for use in international studies using clearly operationalised definitions.…”

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Development of the PICMIN (picture of mental illness in newspapers): instrument to assess mental illness stigma in print media

Rukavina

Nawka

Brborović

et al. 2011

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Development of the PICMIN (picture of mental illness in newspapers): instrument to assess mental illness stigma in print media

Rukavina

Nawka

Brborović

et al. 2011

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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“…It was also evident that our findings aligned with the observation from Hanson et al's [36] research, in how the printed press deployed startling statistics, such as "700,000 sufferers" or "1000 a year have to give up work" [36], to associate RA with a societal 'burden' or 'cost'. Research has analysed the media's usage of language in the context of people with mental health problems [17,[19][20][21][22][23], epilepsy [9,10], diabetes [11], oral cancer [14], and the rheumatological conditions of gout [15] and osteoarthritis [35]. However, our study was the first published one on how the popular press has represented through language those who live with RA.…”

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“…An analysis [21] of newspaper clippings found that almost half of British tabloid articles applied derogatory terms, such as 'nutter' and 'looney' when writing about people with mental health problems. There also has been an overwhelming media fixation on the language of violence in the depiction of schizophrenia, often playing on stereotypes of 'dangerousness' and 'criminality' [22,23]. The 'helpless' or 'incompetent' victim are other demeaning terms written by journalists to characterise people with mental health conditions [24].…”

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Rheumatoid Arthritis Portrayal by UK National Newspapers 2011–2016: A Service User - Led Thematic Analysis of Language Used

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“…The negative representation of the mentally ill is not exclusive to post-Soviet Russian media. Studies from other countries have also noted that the trend in journalism is to focus on threats related to mental illness, creating negative images of mentally ill people (angermeyer & Schulze 2001;granellO & Pauley 2000;link & cullen 1986;Sieff 2003). Therefore in our study we decided not to analyse such representations in detail, but rather to focus on how the new mental health policy ideas were reflected in newspaper coverage.…”

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Mental Healthcare Reforms in Post-Soviet Russian Media: Negotiating New Ideas and Values

Shek¹,

Lumme-Sandt²,

Pietilä³

2016

EJMH

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, democratic principles began to enter into different branches of Russian social and health policy. As part of these changes, the country demonstrated an intention to develop a new mental health policy based on approaches consonant with the principles of the World Health Organization. This study analyses how these new policy ideas and values are reflected in the Russian mass media, and in particular whether media discourses build upon those ideas or oppose them. It is based on a qualitative analysis of newspapers from the late Soviet period (1980s) through the transition period (1990s) to the present (2000s). The analysis focuses on (1) the protection of patients' rights, (2) the reorganisation of mental healthcare services and (3) activities preventing stigmatisation. While there was an absence of discussion of mental health problems in Soviet newspapers, the democratic changes of the 1990s triggered the recognition of the existence of mental illness, critiques of Soviet psychiatry and calls for reform. The media response to the new policies was quite ambivalent. Support for patients' rights and the social integration of the mentally ill was accompanied by fear about the detrimental effects of the reforms on public safety. Articles that challenged stigmatisation also contained negative images of mentally ill people. The media were sceptical about the success of the reforms due to the particularities of Russia's socio-economic situation and history.Keywords: media, mental health policy, patients' rights, Post-Soviet transformations, social integration, stigma Reformen im Zusammenhang mit der psychischen Gesundheitsförderung in den postsowjetischen russischen Medien: Diskussion neuer Ideen und Werte: Nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion erschienen langsam die demokratischen Grundsätze in den verschiedenen Bereichen der russischen Sozial-und Gesundheitspolitik. Als Teil dieses Prozesses zeigte das Land seine Absicht, seine Politik in Bezug auf die psychische Gesundheit aufgrund des entsprechenden European Journal of Mental Health 11 (2016) MENTAL HEALTHCARE REFORMS IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIAN MEDIA EJMH 11:1-2, April 2016Ansatzes der Grundsätze der Weltgesundheitsorganisation zu erneuern. In unserer Studie untersuchen wir, wie diese neuen sozialpolitischen Ideen und Werte in den russischen öffentlichen Medien erschienen, insbesondere hinsichtlich dessen, ob die Diskussionen in den Medien auf diese Ideen bauten oder gegen diese Ideen waren. Die Untersuchung basiert auf der qualitativen Analyse der Pressemitteilungen von drei Zeitabschnitten: der Sowjetzeit (die 80er-Jahre), der Übergangszeit (die 90er-Jahre) und der Zeit bis zur Gegenwart (nach dem Jahr 2000). Die Analyse fokussiert sich auf den (1) Schutz der Rechte der Patienten, (2) die Reorganisation der Einrichtungen der psychischen Gesundheitsförderung und (3) die Aktivität gegen Stigmatisierung. Wäh-rend in den Zeitungen der Sowjetzeit die Probleme im Zusammenhang mit der psychischen Gesundheit noch fehlten, wurde durch ...

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Reinforcing stereotypes: How the focus on forensic cases in news reporting may influence public attitudes towards the mentally ill

Cited by 179 publications

References 13 publications

Development of the PICMIN (picture of mental illness in newspapers): instrument to assess mental illness stigma in print media

Development of the PICMIN (picture of mental illness in newspapers): instrument to assess mental illness stigma in print media

Rheumatoid Arthritis Portrayal by UK National Newspapers 2011–2016: A Service User - Led Thematic Analysis of Language Used

Mental Healthcare Reforms in Post-Soviet Russian Media: Negotiating New Ideas and Values

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