Room for improvement: mixed portrayal of young people with mental illness on Australian television news.
Objective: The aim of the present study was to review television news depiction of mental illness in children and adolescents to test the hypothesis that positive portrayals of adults with mental illness also apply to young people. Methods: Content and frame analysis of first-person depictions and o...
| Publicado en: | Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 267 - 273 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar2010
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