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Article Evaluation: Mental illness portrayed in media I reviewed an article pertaining to mental illness in media. - The article's main point was mental illness in the media, in the article it includes statistics, but the statistics are related to mental illness diagnosis, not mental illness in media. To relate the statistics to the topic I would include statistics pertaining to the number of times mental illness pops up in media. -For the most part, the article is neutral. -In the beginning, the article mentions the point of how mental illness is portrayed in media. The article mentions how they are portrayed but doesn't back up with specific examples or statistics from sources. - The links work for most of the citations, The information in a couple sources give background to mental illness but don't back up the claim of its portrayal in media. A couple other sources back up the claim they make in the article but the claim and information don't back up the main overall claim. - Each fact has a source to back it up. Some of the sources are reliable, one comes from a database and two come from medical websites. A couple sources reliability can be questioned, one source comes from the Huffington Post. - The information that should be added includes specific examples of mental illness in media and statistics that relate to mental illness in media not a diagnosis of mental illness. - The talk page contains only a few posts but no real conversations between editors. - The article has a c class rating. It is a part of three Wikiprojects; Wikiproject Articles creation, Wikiproject media, and Wikiproject psychology.

Possible Topics: 1.Mental illness portrayed in media - I plan on editing the statistics section on the page. Currently, the page contains statistics that are irrelevant to mental illness in media, the statistics currently are rates of mental illness in people. I would include statistics from studies that I found while researching my topic. The statistics I would include would be the number of times mental illness is portrayed in adult and children's media. 2.Mental illness portrayed in media -The second edit that I would make to this article is adding information to the television section. At the moment the section contains only two examples of television shows with mentally ill characters. I would add information about how mentally ill characters are portrayed in television. 3.Mental illness in fiction - TThis source contains a list of fictional works (movies, literature, ex.). I would add a couple sections to the literature list. I would add two stories to the list, "Challenger Deep" and "Freaks Like Us."

Finalizing Topics: 1. Mental illness portrayed in media - I will attempt to make two edits to the article. - The first edit I will attempt to make deals in regards to the statistic section of the article. I will attempt to replace the current statistics that don't pertain to the topic to more relevant statistics from a couple studies found during my research. - The second edit that I will attempt to make is to add information to the television section of the article. I will add new information and statistics to on mental illness in television and how they are portrayed. (combine) - The other edit that I will be making is fixing a citation in the reference list. At this current moment the citation leads to a page that contains irrelevant information. 2. Mental illness in fiction -I will attempt to add titles of books to the current list, I will add two young adult literature books "Challenger Deep" and "Freaks Like Us." Bibliography: -Wahl, Otto F. (2009) "Depictions of Mental Illness in Children's Media." Journal of Mental Health, 12:3, 249-258, DOI: 10.1080/0963823031000118230 -Wilson, Claire, et al. “How Mental Illness Is Portrayed in Children's Television: A Prospective Study.” British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 176, no. 5, 2000, pp. 440–443., doi:10.1192/bjp.176.5.440.

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Children's Television
Children's television programs contain references to mental illnesses. A study conducted on a variety of New Zealand Children's television shows showed that a mental illness reference appeared in 59 out of 128 episodes studied. 159 mental illness references where contained in the 59 episodes.The 159 references consisted of vocabulary and character descriptions. Mad, Crazy, and Losing your mind were above the three most common vocabulary references. Character descriptions consisted of disfigured facial features (teeth, noses, etc.) as well as disfigured extremities (feet, fingers, etc.).