Communicating Mental Health: History, Contexts, and Perspectives

Communicating Mental Health: History, Contexts, and Perspectives explores mental health through the lens of the communication discipline. In the first section, contributors describe the major contributions of the communication discipline as it pertains to a broader perspective and stigma of mental health. In the second section, contributors investigate mental health through various narrative perspectives. In the third and fourth sections, contributors consider many applied contexts such as media, education, and family. At the conclusion, contributors discuss the ways in which future inquiries regarding mental health in the communication discipline can be investigated. Scholars of health communication, mental health, psychology, history, and sociology will find this volume particularly useful.

Lance R. Lippert is professor in the School of Communication at Illinois State University. Robert D. Hall is pursuing his Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Aimee E. Miller-Ott is associate professor in the School of Communication at Illinois State University. Daniel Cochece Davis is assistant professor in the School of Communication at Illinois State University.