One a more fundamental note, Rothfelder and Thornton (2017) questionwhether empathy and understanding are unambiguously desirable rhetorical effects atall. While some news and magazine articles clearly aligned with one of thefour clusters, we identified many examples where different clusters andbiocommunicable models intersected to create complex, sometimes paradoxical,terminological and biocommunicable cartographies. Theterminology in this cluster pinpoints attention to a question that is often leftout in the previous clusters, namely, whether we can guarantee that a personthat wants to be helped professionally will be able to find and accessappropriate care. Likewise, a variety of potential sources of support are mentioned,including professional help from a family doctor, therapist or psychiatrist,psycho-pharmaceuticals, alternative therapies, and nonprofessional help such assupport from friends, family or fellow-sufferers/survivors, and self-care.
What Does This Paper Contribute to the Wider Global Clinical Community?
We need decision makers to fully grasp the scale of the mental health challenges this country is facing and in particular the challenges facing young people. The return of aspects of mental health stigma to levels last seen in 2009 is deeply concerning. These problems may lead to a loss of empathy in general for people with mental health problems; one positive finding, however, is that people’s desire to interact with someone who has a mental health problem, when asked to imagine they know them, has not declined. We’re increasingly seeing healthcare services that are stretched and struggling to cope with demand, while people are struggling in difficult economic circumstances.
Context of the Study
- Theterminology in this cluster pinpoints attention to a question that is often leftout in the previous clusters, namely, whether we can guarantee that a personthat wants to be helped professionally will be able to find and accessappropriate care.
- It is vital that psychiatrists and other mental health professionals find ways to boost accurate knowledge about mental illness without simultaneously inflating it, and that they push back against overly expansive concepts.
- High pressure workplace environments aswell as technological developments, social media, and the concomitantexpectation of always being available are singled out as leading to “a tsunami”of stress, burn-out, anxiety, and depression.
- ” or arguing that “changing our reactions toculture can be liberating.” Here again, appeals are being made to the“enterprising individual” that, once informed about the social risks threateningits wellbeing, will be able to make the right health choices (see also Cluster2).
- The need for a public health approach to reduce the burden of mental health problems is increasingly accepted, and this paper aims to summarize current thinking and trends in the field.
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). Is the Director of the Research and Impact Initiative for Communication in Healthcare (HKU RIICH) at the University of Hong Kong. For example, Galinsky’s and colleagues’ research focuses on discourses surrounding male depression and suicide 27–29.
The relationship between mental health literacy and concept breadth
In severalnews articles, economic interests are integrated in the formula as well, withthe costs of persons who experience mental health problems (in terms ofeconomic, social and human capital) presented as posing an economic threat tohealthy societies. Our cluster analysis furthermore shows that scientific terminology oftenintersects with neurological and technological terminology to create theequation that more technology equals more individual, neurological, statisticaldata which, in its turn, is assumed to lead to less risk of mental healthproblems and thus healthy individuals and healthy societies (Table 4). This cluster is most apparent in news articles that relate mentalhealth problems to (pseudo-)criminal activities, with the terminology used torefer to people with mental health problems ranging from judicial language(e.g., the accused, the offender) to biomedical language (e.g., psychiatricpatient) and language that relates to madness (e.g., a disturbed person, a sickmind). We identified four dominant terminological clusters in the newspaper and magazines’mental health reporting, with mental health/illness conceptualized in terms of (a)danger and risk, (b) a lifestyle issue, (c) a unique story and experience, and (d)social trends and factors.
These concepts, on the one hand, relate to a linear and objective language when discussing recovery-oriented cross-sectoral collaboration. Network meetings were described as an organisational approach to achieve the aim of recovery-oriented cross-sectoral collaboration. In Brand generosity and mental health this section, we present our findings, based on the three-dimensional analysis. Hereafter we contacted the participants and gave verbal and written information about the purpose of the study.