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Hollywood Portrayals of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Treatment: Implications for Clinical Practice

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Positive and negative depictions of illness and treatment are identified for education and awareness, and advice for using Hollywood films successfully as a helpful intervention in the mental health treatment of children and adolescents is provided.
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This article is published in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.The article was published on 2005-07-01. It has received 25 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Child and adolescent psychiatry & Mental illness.

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WPA guidance on how to combat stigmatization of psychiatry and psychiatrists.

TL;DR: A Task Force to examine available evidence about the stigmatization of psychiatry and psychiatrists and to make recommendations about action that national psychiatric societies and psychiatrists as professionals could do to reduce or prevent the stigmatized of their discipline is presented.

Homicidal maniacs and narcissistic parasites: Stigmatization of mentally ill persons in the movies.

TL;DR: Mental health professionals can fight this source of stigma by increasing their collaboration with patient advocacy groups in monitoring negative portrayals of mentally ill people, using public information campaigns such as Mental Illness Awareness Week to call attention to the process of stigmatization, and supporting accurate dramatic and documentary depictions of mental illness.
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Strategies to reduce the stigma toward people with mental disorders in Iran: stakeholders' perspectives.

TL;DR: The major themes that emerged were: “Emphasis on education and changing attitudes”, “Changing the culture’, ‘Promoting supportive services’ and “Evidence-based actions”.
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EPA guidance on how to improve the image of psychiatry and of the psychiatrist.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present some of the factors affecting the image of psychiatry and psychiatrists which is perceived by the public at large, and explore potential causes and explanations and propose some strategies in dealing with negative attitudes.
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Mental health on screen: A DSM-5 dissection of portrayals of autism spectrum disorders in film and TV.

TL;DR: The data show that characters present a full range of characteristics described in the DSM-5, and the meaning of this finding is discussed in relation to potential educational value of on screen portrayals and the notion of authenticity in representing the autistic experience.
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How stigma interferes with mental health care.

TL;DR: Recommendations are reviewed for ongoing research that will more comprehensively expand understanding of the stigma-care seeking link and implications for the development of antistigma programs that might promote care seeking and participation are reviewed.
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Psychiatry and the cinema

TL;DR: The Psychiatrist at the Movies as discussed by the authors is a psychoanalytic approach to the classic hollywood text, where the alienist, the quack, and the oracle are represented as psychotherapist characters.

Homicidal maniacs and narcissistic parasites: Stigmatization of mentally ill persons in the movies.

TL;DR: Mental health professionals can fight this source of stigma by increasing their collaboration with patient advocacy groups in monitoring negative portrayals of mentally ill people, using public information campaigns such as Mental Illness Awareness Week to call attention to the process of stigmatization, and supporting accurate dramatic and documentary depictions of mental illness.
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Homicidal maniacs and narcissistic parasites: stigmatization of mentally ill persons in the movies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that mental health professionals can fight this source of stigma by increasing their collaboration with patient advocacy groups in monitoring negative portrayals of mentally ill people, using public information campaigns such as Mental Illness Awareness Week to call attention to the process of stigmatization, and supporting accurate dramatic and documentary depictions of mental illness.
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Impact of a television film on attitudes toward mental illness

TL;DR: Results support concerns that media depictions add to mental illness stigma and also suggest that corrective information alone may be sufficient to counteract the stigmatizing impact of such audience-involving mass media portrayals.
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