Mental health and journalism : chances and risks

Hüsser, Angelica; Schanne, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-59123-0_19

Publication type:	Book part
Type of review:	Editorial review
Title:	Mental health and journalism : chances and risks
Authors:	Hüsser, Angelica Schanne, Michael
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-319-59123-0_19
Published in:	Global mental health : prevention and promotion
Editors of the parent work:	Bährer-Kohler, Sabine Carod-Artal, Francisco Javier
Page(s):	223
Pages to:	233
Issue Date:	2017
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Springer
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Cham
ISBN:	978-3-319-59123-0
Language:	English
Subject (DDC):	070: News media, journalism and publishing 616.8: Neurology, diseases of nervous system
Abstract:	Media reporting on mental health, mental illness and suicide is a much-debated topic. The often repeated assumption is that media reporting leads - in various degrees of correlation - to discrimination, stigmatization or, worse, in case of reporting about suicide to copycat suicides. As far as research is concerned, it is rarely possible to find consistent and comparatively well-founded empirical evidence in news media. The fields of research are widespread across scientific disciplines and their journals. Conceptualizations and operationalizations are inconsistent. Theoretical models are simplistic and approaches isolated. As far as daily journalism is concerned, a series of online resources are made available by different parties. The lowest common denominator is that reporting should be cautious and respectful. However, the reality shows a different picture. There are no easy or hands-on solutions. To advance journalistic reporting, psychologists, psychiatrists and their institutions are called upon to engage more and provide their expert knowledge. The quality of journalistic reporting can be significantly improved by maintaining ongoing relations between experts and journalists.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/1697
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	Applied Linguistics
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik

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Hüsser, A., & Schanne, M. (2017). Mental health and journalism : chances and risks. In S. Bährer-Kohler & F. J. Carod-Artal (Eds.), Global mental health : prevention and promotion (pp. 223–233). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59123-0_19

Hüsser, A. and Schanne, M. (2017) ‘Mental health and journalism : chances and risks’, in S. Bährer-Kohler and F.J. Carod-Artal (eds) Global mental health : prevention and promotion. Cham: Springer, pp. 223–233. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59123-0_19.

A. Hüsser and M. Schanne, “Mental health and journalism : chances and risks,” in Global mental health : prevention and promotion, S. Bährer-Kohler and F. J. Carod-Artal, Eds. Cham: Springer, 2017, pp. 223–233. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-59123-0_19.

HÜSSER, Angelica und Michael SCHANNE, 2017. Mental health and journalism : chances and risks. In: Sabine BÄHRER-KOHLER und Francisco Javier CAROD-ARTAL (Hrsg.), Global mental health : prevention and promotion. Cham: Springer. S. 223–233. ISBN 978-3-319-59123-0

Hüsser, Angelica, and Michael Schanne. 2017. “Mental Health and Journalism : Chances and Risks.” In Global Mental Health : Prevention and Promotion, edited by Sabine Bährer-Kohler and Francisco Javier Carod-Artal, 223–33. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59123-0_19.

Hüsser, Angelica, and Michael Schanne. “Mental Health and Journalism : Chances and Risks.” Global Mental Health : Prevention and Promotion, edited by Sabine Bährer-Kohler and Francisco Javier Carod-Artal, Springer, 2017, pp. 223–33, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59123-0_19.