Mental Health Ontologies How We Talk About Mental Health, and Why it Matters in the Digital Age

Mental Health Ontologies How We Talk About Mental Health, and Why it Matters in the Digital Age

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Hastings, Janna
University of Exeter Press
EAN: 9781905816507
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Mental health presents one of the defining public health challenges of our time. Proponents of different conceptions of what mental illness is wage war for the hearts and minds of patients, practitioners, policy-makers, and the public. Debate and fragmentation around the nature of the entities that feature in the mental health domain divide resources and reduce progress. The way mental health is publicly discussed in the media has tangible effects, in terms of stigma, access to healthcare and resources, and private expectations of recovery.

This book explores in detail the sorts of statements that are made about mental health in the media and public reporting of scientific research, grounding them in the wider context of the theoretical frameworks, assumptions and metaphors that they draw from. The author shows how a holistic understanding of the way that different aspects of mental illness are interrelated can be developed from evidence-based interpretation of the latest research findings. She offers some ideas about corrective, integrative approaches to discussing mental health-related matters publicly that may reduce the opposition between conceptualisations while still aiming to reduce stigma, shame and blame. In particular, she emphasises that discourse in the media needs to be anchored to an overview of all the research results across the field and argues that this could be achieved using new technological infrastructures.

The author provides an integrative account of what mental health is, together with an improved understanding of the factors driving the persistence of oppositional accounts in the public discourse. The book will be of benefit to researchers, practitioners and students in the domain of mental health.

EAN 9781905816507
ISBN 1905816502
Binding Hardback
Publisher University of Exeter Press
Publication date June 29, 2020
Pages 192
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 152
Country United Kingdom
Readership Professional & Scholarly
Authors Hastings, Janna
Series Language, Discourse and Mental Health