The Handbook of Mental Health Communication

＂The Handbook of Mental Health Communication provides an overview of theory and research that lies at the intersection of mass communication and mental health, examining the impact of communication processes and content on mental health outcomes, both as a product of individuals’ everyday interaction with media and as a result of strategic use of media-based efforts to accomplish mental health goals. The book’s major premise is that understanding communication effects on mental health outcomes begins with recognizing implications of mental illness symptomatology for how people across the spectrum of mental illness process personally relevant information about mental health.＂-- Provided by publisher.

MARCO C. YZER is Professor of Health Communication at the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication. His research focuses on how cognitive characteristics of mental illnesses explain how people process messages that promote mental health. He serves on the editorial boards of Health Communication, Psychology, Health and Medicine, and Stigma and Health.

JASON T. SIEGEL is a Professor of Social Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. His research focuses on applying persuasion, motivation, and emotion theories to create, implement, and evaluate messages that encourage help-seeking behaviors among individuals with depression and enhance the social support they receive. He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including Health Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Stigma and Health, and Health Communication.