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Communication and Mental Health in Global Contexts

Opportunities for Transformation, Representation, and Social Justice

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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This volume offers a social justice perspective to mental health and communication in global contexts by foregrounding equitable and ethical understandings of mental health disparities.Representing leading and emerging voices in Communication, the chapters employ theoretical and methodological approaches spanning community-based participatory research, communicative precarity and communicative violence, media framing, and cultural critiques to address stigma, promote mental health literacy, and shape equitable understandings of accessibility and quality of care.Edited by Vinita Agarwal and with a foreword by Teri Thompson, this volume will interest scholars, students, and practitioners in mental health, health communication, social work, patient advocacy, community health, psychology, and public health.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-01-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Research in Health Communication
Antal sidor208
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041092193

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Vinita Agarwal is professor of communication at Salisbury University, USA. She is the author of Health Communication as Social Justice: A Whole Person Activist Approach (Routledge, 2024) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication and Social Justice (Forthcoming). Her work has been published in Frontiers in Pain Research, Health Communication, Journal of Patient Experience, Qualitative Health Research, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, and Journal of Advanced Nursing. She has authored encyclopedia entries and several book chapters including on the semi-structured interviewing method for SAGE Handbook of Medicine and Health.

Foreword; 1. The problematic implications of situating mental health in foundationalist discourse; 2. Psychic toll and communicative violence: Anti-immigrant rhetoric, mental health disparities, and the conditions for a collective mental health crisis; 3. Social justice perspective for social support of immigrant women’s mental health; 4. Explicating communicative precarity for understanding mental health among migrant populations; 5. Re-Designing the WHO “Thinking Healthy” Manual: The Role of Inter-Organizational Communication in An Arts-Based Maternal Mental Health Intervention; 6. Experiences of bullying and mental health problems among immigrant youth in Canada; 7. Empowering rural Ecuador: Participatory approaches to mental health communication; 8. Africa’s cultural perspectives of mental health discourse through the lens of stigma communication; 9. Explicating the divergence in worldwide mental health literacy: Perspectives from the United States, the Middle East; 10. “Call him what he is–A cannibal killer”: Exploring the trust paradox through a case study of the Greyhound bus attack; 11. Dulling the “Shining Shield”: Media framing of the mental health and indigenous identity of hockey player Chris Simon; 12. Hindu and Buddhist perspectives on mental health in cinematic representations: Coping and transforming in India and Japan; Afterword; Index