Mitigating the impact of the media on stigmatising attitudes towards people with severe mental illness

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The media is a key source of information about mental illness, it has strong potential to reduce stigma towards severe mental illness (SMI) on a widespread scale. My PhD research will investigate the influence of media reporting on stigma towards SMI, gain an understanding of stakeholders’ perspectives on and recommendations for media reporting on SMI, develop media reporting guidelines to reduce stigma, and develop and trial a brief intervention based on the guidelines with journalism students.