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The first book of its kind to offer a transdisciplinary exploration of mass communication approaches to mental health
In the Handbook of Mental Health Communication, a panel of leading scholars from multiple disciplines presents a comprehensive overview of theory and research at the intersection of mass communication and mental health. With timely and authoritative coverage of the impact of message-based mental health promotion, this unique volume places mental health communication in the context of socio-cultural causes of mental illness — synthesizing public health, psychopathology, and mass communication scholarship into a single volume.
Throughout the Handbook, nearly one hundred contributing authors emphasize that understanding communication effects on mental health outcomes begins with recognizing how people across the spectrum of mental illness process relevant information about their own mental health. Fully integrated chapters collectively translate biased information attention, interpretation, and memory in mental health illness to real-world implications of mental illness symptomatology and across the spectrum of mental health issues and disorders.
Providing a clear, evidence-based picture of what mental health promotion should look like, The Handbook of Mental Health Communication is an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, researchers, lecturers, and all health communication practitioners.
Contents
List of Contributors ix
Preface xiii
Introduction
1. Mental Health Mass Communication: Using Messages to Relieve the Plight of People With Mental Illness 3
Marco C. Yzer and Jason T. Siegel
Part I Mental Illness and Information Processing
2. Emotional Information-Processing Biases in Psychopathology 19
Lisa M. W. Vos, Tom Smeets, and Jonas Everaert
3. Neural Correlates of Psychopathology: Implications for the Processing of Persuasive Health Messages 33
Caroline Ostrand and Monica Luciana
4. Cognitive Deficits in Major Depression: Characteristics, Role, and Relevance 49
Elayne Ahern Copyrighted Material
5. The Impact of Self-and Partner Schemas on Information Processing and Treatment Seeking in Depression 65
Fei Ying, Gabriela C. M. Murphy, and David J. A. Dozois
Part II Conceptualization and Measurement of Primary Variables
6. A Typology of Health Communication Variables Relevant for Mental Health 79
Romy RW, Xingman Wu, Rudy Sunrin Kim, and Xiaoli Nan
7. Introducing Health Communication Science to Mental Health Researchers: An Examination of Information Seeking, Processing, and Dissemination Frameworks 93
Brian Quick, Sarah Caban, Minhey Chung, and Jia Yan
8. Pretesting and Selecting Messages Using Perceived Message Effectiveness Ratings 109
Seth M. Noar, Haijing Ma, and Jacob A. Rohde
9. The Conceptualization, Measurement, and Reduction of Self-Stigma of Seeking Help 125
David L. Vogel, Patrick J. Heath, Rachel E. Brenner, Daniel G. Lannin, and Nan Zhao
10. Advancing the Measurement of Mental Illness Stigma: Considerations of Time, Structural Stigma, and Intersectionality 141
Annie B. Fox, Xueli Qiu, Mohammad Mousavi, and Valerie A. Earnshaw
11. Refining the Concept of Mental Health Literacy: Criteria for Determining What the Public Needs to Know 155
Anthony F. Jorm
Part III Digital Media and Mental Health
12. Cracking the Code of Gaming Disorder: Effective Communication for Parents, Children, and Policymakers 167
Kylie Woodman and René Weber
13. Chatbots for Mental Health: A Network-Oriented Modeling Perspective 181
Gert-Jan de Bruijn, Fakhra Jabeen, and Tibor Bosse
14. mHealth for Mental Health: Expanding the Reach of Care 193
Nancy Lau, Lola Kola, Xin Zhao, Seth Asafo, Dzifa Attah, and Dror Ben-Zeev
15. Mental Health Apps and Privacy: Misunderstandings and Messaging 207
Jolynn Childers Dellinger
Part IV Special Populations, Mental Health Disparities, and Communication Inequalities
16. Considerations for Optimizing Mental Health Communication to Advance Mental Health Equity 225
Crystal L. Barksdale, Collene Lawhorn, Jennifer Alvidrez, and Kat Schwartz
17. Affinity and Advocacy: Online Communities for People Experiencing Mental Health Conditions 241
Frances J. Griffith and Sydney C. Simmons
18. Well-Being Among Physicians in Training: Barriers to Treatment and Efforts to Increase Help Seeking for Depression 263
Sabrina Menezes and Gregory Guldner
19. Communication, Equity, and Mental Well-Being: The Road Ahead 281
Laura Marciano, Ava Kikut-Stein, and K. Viswanath
Part V Stigma Reduction
20. Stigmatizing Communication and Mental Health 297
Xun Zhu, Rachel A. Smith, and Ruth A. Osoro
21. Reducing Mental Health Stigma Through School-Based Interventions: Assessing the Evidence and Translating It into Practice 313
Ashley Johnston, Supriya Misra, Rachel Banawa, John Anagnost, and Daniel Eisenberg
22. Application of Weiner's Attribution-Emotion-Action Model to Increase Support to People With Depression 329
Tara Muschetto and Jason T. Siegel
23. The Benefits and Unintended Consequences of Anti-Stigma Campaigns 347
Miranda Twiss, Nataliya Turchmanovych-Hienkel, and Patrick Corrigan
Part VI Promising Strategies
24. Minimizing Reactance to Increase Help Seeking for Depression 363
Christopher M. Falco and Benjamin D. Rosenberg
25. Suicide Prevention Media Campaigns: An Application of the Papageno Effect 377
Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Stefanie Kirchner, Benedikt Till, Angela Nicholas, Maria Ftanou, and Jane Pirkis
26. Positive Emotion Infusions as a Means of Increasing Help Seeking Among People Experiencing Depression: Savoring, Elevation, and Gratitude 385
Tasha Straszewski and Jason T. Siegel
27. A Research Protocol for Determining Depression Help-Seeking Message Content 399
Marco C. Yzer and Xuan Zhu
28. Investigating Help-Seeking Attitudes Among People With Varying Levels of Depressive Symptomatology: An Attitude-Strength Diagnostic Approach 413
Jason T. Siegel and Cara N. Tan
Part VII Lessons Learned
29. My Third Child: The Journal Health Communication and Some Lessons for Mental Health Communication 433
Teresa L. Thompson
30. The Efficacy of Multi-Behavior Interventions: From Physical Health to Mental Health 445
Wenhao Dai and Dolores Albarracín
31. Lessons from Digital Health Research 457
Jenna Reno, Kevin Wombacher, and Brian Southwell
32. Persuasive Prevention Strategies in Health Communication 467
William D. Crano
33. Maximizing Mental Health Communication: The IIFF Model of Help Seeking for Depression 479
Jason T. Siegel and Marco C. Yzer
Index 497
