The Stigmatization of Mental Illness in Video Gaming

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Title: The Stigmatization of Mental Illness in Video Gaming
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Subject: Video games., Mental illness.
Description: Video games often villainize mental illness as a means of explaining the behaviors of villains and other characters in the game (Shapiro & Rotter, 2016). Thus, the goal of this thesis is twofold: first, I analyzed a sample of 18 video games for their content concerning the stigmatization of mental illness. Second, I will then propose two alternative methods of presenting mental illness in video games: one method will be a suggestion aimed at the elimination of mental health stigma from video game content so that an alternative design to the current system is available. The second method is a suggestion aimed at educating players of video games on mental health in an effort to reduce mental health public stigma as a whole and improve knowledge about mental illness so that facts are more widely available than myth using Patrick Corrigan’s analyses on the different ways mental health public stigma can be confronted and reduced., Honors Thesis Advisor, Dr. Rebecca Regeth.
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Contributor: Chambers, Terrence J. (Author), California University of Pennsylvania. Honors Program. (Author)
Date: 2017-04-24
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Identifier: cali:122
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