{"id":97921,"date":"2022-05-04T11:20:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T05:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/hollywood-still-stigmatizes-mental-health-usc-study-says\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T11:20:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T05:50:59","slug":"hollywood-still-stigmatizes-mental-health-usc-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/hollywood-still-stigmatizes-mental-health-usc-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Still Stigmatizes Mental Health, USC Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
The positive portrayal of mental health issues is lacking in Hollywood, and the majority of portrayals tend to stigmatize mental health conditions, according to a new study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. Per the report \u2014 titled \u201cMental Health Conditions Across 200 Popular Films\u201d \u2014 only 1.5% of all speaking or named characters in cinema were depicted with a mental health condition.<\/p>\n
The research \u2014 which was led by Dr. Stacy L. Smith<\/a> and New York Times best-selling author and the Initiative\u2019s newly appointed Chief Well-Being Advisor Jay Shetty<\/a>, in conjunction with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention<\/a> \u2014 examined the 100 top-grossing movies of 2019 and compared the findings with the Initiative\u2019s last report, which was conducted with the same number of films in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n