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.
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
MARCO C. YZER is Professor of Health Communication at the University of Minnesota's Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication. His research focuses on how cognitive characteristics of mental illnesses explain how people process messages that promote mental health. He serves on the editorial boards of Health Communication, Psychology, Health and Medicine, and Stigma and Health. JASON T. SIEGEL is a Professor of Social Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. His research focuses on applying persuasion, motivation, and emotion theories to create, implement, and evaluate messages that encourage help-seeking behaviors among individuals with depression and enhance the social support they receive. He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including Health Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Stigma and Health, and Health Communication.
