Mental Health Issues and the Media: An Introduction for Health Professionals

by Gary Morris

Book Overview

Mental Health Issues and the Media provides students and professionals in nursing and allied professions, in psychiatry, psychology and related disciplines, with a theoretically grounded introduction to the ways in which our attitudes are shaped by the media.

A wide range of contemporary media help to create attitudes surrounding mental health and illness, and for all health professionals, the ways in which they do so are of immediate concern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415325307
• ISBN13: 9780415325301
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"