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The Handbook of Mental Health Communication (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781394179862)
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xA comprehensive overview of theory and research at the intersection of mass communication and mental health
The Handbook of Mental Health Communication provides timely and authoritative coverage of the impact of message-based mental health promotion. Positioning mental health communication in the context of socio-cultural causes of mental illness, the Handbook underscores that understanding communication effects on mental health outcomes begins with recognizing how people experiencing mental illness process relevant information about their own mental health.
Organized into 33 chapters, the Handbook synthesizes public health, psychopathology, and mass communication scholarship into a single resource. Throughout the book, nearly 100 leading scholars collectively translate biased information attention, interpretation, and memory in mental illness to real-world implications for the use of mass communication to optimize and safeguard mental health messaging.
The first book of its kind to offer a transdisciplinary overview of mass communication approaches to mental health, the Handbook of Mental Health Communication:
- Addresses key areas of health communication such as information processing, digital media, special populations, and measurement methods
- Provides systematic guidance on reducing the stigma of mental illness symptomatology
- Offers clear descriptions of promising mass communication strategies for mental health promotion
- Reviews approaches for informing the research agenda on mental health mass communication
- Includes practical strategies for designing and measuring persuasive health messages
The Handbook of Mental Health Communication is the perfect textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in public health, communication, psychology, public affairs, and medical programs, and an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers, lecturers, and all health communication practitioners.
Author: Marco C. Yzer
ISBN-10: 1394179863
ISBN-13: 9781394179862
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2025
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
By Marco C. Yzer
xMarco C. Yzer is Professor of Health Communication, Hubbard School for Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota. He advises, teaches, and conducts research on the interplay between audience, message, and context factors in shaping mental health behavior. His research focuses on how cognitive characteristics of mental illnesses explain how people process messages that promote mental health. He has served on the editorial boards of Psychology, Health and Medicine, Stigma and Health, and Health Communication.
Jason T. Siegel is Professor of Social Psychology at Claremont Graduate University, where he serves as Director of the Depression and Persuasion Research Lab. His scholarship applies theories of persuasion, motivation, and emotion to develop and test messages for increasing help-seeking among people with depression and strengthening the social support received by this population. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and has served on editorial boards of journals including Health Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Stigma and Health, and Health Communication.
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