Lexicon - International Media Guide for Mental Health  

This Lexicon is designed to be a useful and helpful resource for editors, journalists, and other people in the media who want to address the important challenges and opportunities in reporting mental health issues.

The media have a significant role to play in providing accurate and fair representations of mental illness.  We hope the Lexicon will help the media fulfil this role by providing up-to-date terminology, facts and statistics that reflect the spectrum of mental health issues.

This Lexicon was produced in collaboration with Professor Eduard Vieta, Clinical Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Spain; Lois Rogers, a leading UK healthcare correspondent and a number of National, European and International patient and carer advocacy organisations including EUFAMI.