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  • Chapter 37 - Mental health, mass communication, and media

  • from Section 6 - Human resources and capacity building
  • Edited by Samuel O. Okpaku
  • Book:
    Essentials of Global Mental Health
    Published online:
    05 March 2014
    Print publication:
    27 February 2014, pp 356-366

  • Summary

    Traditional and social media have considerable potential to reach a broad audience and cover a wide range of topics. Media in the form of telemedicine and distance learning has a long history in rural and congested urban areas, but it can be most efficiently used today when incorporated into modern media. The ability to communicate with one another allows global communities to become co-producers of mental health content. This chapter proposes that media can play a role in encouraging positive mental health and well-being, thereby impacting prevalence rates of common mental disorders. Mass media interventions have a proven impact on mental health literacy, destigmatization, and prevention, as demonstrated by a variety of research methods. The series content depicts recognizable locations and daily life themes, often focusing on traumatic issues such as corruption, ethnic differences, coping with emotions, rape, and drugs.

The Experience of Psychopathology
  • Investigating Mental Disorders in their Natural Settings
  • Edited by Marten W. de Vries
  • Foreword by M. Csikszentmihalyi
  • Published online:
    03 May 2010
    Print publication:
    19 March 1992
  • This book is devoted to understanding the experience of distress, well-being and psychopathology in daily life, with the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) in psychiatry, and contains contributions from the leading international pioneers of this approach. Experience sampling is a methodology for collecting reliable and valid data on patterns of behaviour, thought and feeling from real-life situations. It thus yields data complementary to those provided by neurobiological approaches to mental illnesses and is applicable to the study and management of a wide variety of mental disorders in their natural settings. The editor, who did much to bring ESM to prominence in psychiatry, has assembled a fascinating range of contributions, many of them previously unpublished, dealing with the diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities of this approach.