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Article Evaluation

The article I chose to evaluate was 'Mental Illness: Perception and Discrimination,' I found this article by typing in mental illness on Wikipedia and scrolling down to the Perception and Discrimination portion, which covers three sections: Stigma, Media and General Public, and Violence.

Link- Mental disorder

Immediately after reading the three sections of Perception and Discrimination: Stigma, Media and General Public, and Violence, I learned that the three sections are very well organized and each cover separate crucial topics while still intertwining with each other and linking together to give the reader a full understanding of the article. In the Stigma section, mostly everything was relevant to the topic and gave a broad understanding of stigmas of mental illness and how they are understood in the Christian Church, how mental illness effects employment, and the role that psychologists and therapists play in the aid of mental illness. But in the Stigma section there is one sentence stating that in China if you have a mental illness you cannot marry. This fact felt unnecessary because the article wasn't already on the topic of China or how marriage and mental illness go together. The fact felt thrown in and irrelevant. The Media and General Public section was very well done because it discusses how cartoons in the media introduce stigmas at a young age and how on tv, a majority of coverage on mental illness is predominantly negative and gives it a bad name. The Media and General Public section is the best section out of the three in terms of having all around information that links to the two other sections for a better understanding of the full article. The Violence section uses reliable statistics,studies, and crime rates to discuss their information and discuss if severe mental illness actually predicts future violent behavior. Even though the topic of mental illness and its link to violence is a heated and heavily debated topic, the page states facts and is not biased in any way. I checked a few citations in two sections to see if the sources being used were truly reliable. In the Stigma section, the two citations numbered [151], [154], were reliable sources but [153] was a dot com website and the information used from that website was a general observation not a proven fact. In the Violence section, the citations numbered [175] and [176] were both reliable sources from scholarly journals by psychologists.