It's a long document linked, but a good one. This is an excerpt I found helpful.
DON’T:
1. Begin the conversation with mental health or mental illness.
2. Fall into the fatalism trap - that mental illness is primarily caused by genetics, and/or that development is set by age three or four.
3. Fall into the mentalism trap - of individual responsibility and control over emotional health and well-being.
4. Assume that people can understand why “investment” in early childhood prevention saves money and improves outcomes without also improving their understanding of the process of development through the core story.
5. Use vivid case studies of individual children or families as a way to highlight policy or program needs — as noted above and in O’Neil36, these are commonly told stories in the media that easily trigger notions of fatalism and obscure solutions.
http://frameworksinstitute.org...ets/files/CMH_MM.pdf
1. Begin the conversation with mental health or mental illness.
2. Fall into the fatalism trap - that mental illness is primarily caused by genetics, and/or that development is set by age three or four.
3. Fall into the mentalism trap - of individual responsibility and control over emotional health and well-being.
4. Assume that people can understand why “investment” in early childhood prevention saves money and improves outcomes without also improving their understanding of the process of development through the core story.
5. Use vivid case studies of individual children or families as a way to highlight policy or program needs — as noted above and in O’Neil36, these are commonly told stories in the media that easily trigger notions of fatalism and obscure solutions.
http://frameworksinstitute.org...ets/files/CMH_MM.pdf
Thanks for bringing this up and sharing it, Corinna. Great topic.
Cis