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Competing Frames of Mental Health and Mental Illness: Media Frames and the Public Understandings of Child Mental Health as Part of Strategic Frame Analysis™

This report examines 80 news articles focused on child mental health drawn from large and regional newspapers May 2008 – May 2009.
Author(s)
Moira O’Neil, Anna Mikulak, Pamela Morgan, Nathaniel Kendall-Taylor
Published
August 12, 2009
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This report examines 80 news articles focused on child mental health drawn from large and regional newspapers May 2008 – May 2009. News coverage is analyzed from both a descriptive perspective and a cognitive perspective, suggesting how media frames interact with the cultural models of child mental health documented in other research.

Issues
Child and Adolescent Development Health
Countries
United States

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