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Results suggest that mental illness depictions are common in children’s films, and that, despite some positive responses from other characters, mentally ill characters tend to be feared and disparaged.
Most important, there are 3 out of 15 who are not mentally ill. Our observations show that standardized diagnostic interviews cannot be used to make specific differential diagnoses, but rather catch unspecific syndromes.
The findings also paralleled the author's life experiences as a sibling of a chronically mentally ill person.
Mentally ill women also become involved in disproportionate serious rule breaking, including assaultive acts, leading to inappropriate placement in segregation cells, where their difficulties are apt to become exacerbated.
Nunnally used semantic differential ratings of mentally ill characters from a variety of mass media sources to assess media images in the late 1950s and early 1960s and found images of mental illness to be decidedly negative with characters depicted as strong, active, different and dangerous.’ More recent investigations have shown that mental illness continues to be a predominant theme in prime-time television with characters most frequently portrayed as either victims or perpetrators of crime.4 Gerbner noted that “mentally ill charac-
Implications: The findings provide evidence that nurse-led, needs-based psycho-education can improve mental health, self-efficacy and insights into mental illness in Chinese first-onset mentally ill patients.
She believes mentally ill individuals need to be educated about their illnesses and require appropriate supportive psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, access to support groups, and structured activities, such as working, attending school, and training for a job.
The findings may enlighten psychiatric nurses in the care of mentally ill patients, caregivers and family members.
It is also argued that the fact that in Jane Eyre , Bertha Mason, the madwoman in the attic, is rendered voiceless is not accidental but emblematic of the depiction of mentally ill people in fiction.