Annotated Bibliography

“.The Importance of Mental Health Awareness in Schools.” Hey Teach!, 24 Oct. 2018,
www.wgu.edu/heyteach/article/importance-mental-health-awareness-schools1810.html.

This article was written by award-winning teacher and Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School
of Education at Emmanuel College in Boston, MA., Nany Barile. She tells about the signs of
mental illness she sees on a daily basis exerted by her students. Barile tells about a specific
experience she had with one of her senior students who she personally watched decline
academically and socially. Barile cites sources such as The National Alliance on Mental Illness
and the New York School Mental Health Program. This article showed a first-hand witness
experience of mental illness in the classroom by a teacher, and because one of my major
solutions for the mental health crisis is within the education system, this was a good article for
me to incorporate into my project.

Farreras, Ingrid G. “History of Mental Illness.” Noba

https://nobaproject.com/modules/history-of-mental-illness

This article was written by Ingrid G. Ferreras, an Associate Professor of Psychology at Hood
College, MD. Ferreras goes deep into the history of mental illnesses, spanning from the Stone
Age to the 20th Century. She explains the misconstrued cultural beliefs that stem from these
centuries’ old beliefs. She touches on many different cultures’ beliefs of the origins of mental
illness. Ferreras also talks about the history of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders) and its revisions. Because my project is based largely on mental illnesses and
the cultural stigmas about them, this was a very important article to my project.

Gold, Jenny. “Health Insurers Are Still Skimping On Mental Health Coverage.” NPR, NPR, 30
Nov. 2017
www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/11/29/567264925/health-insurers-are-still-skimping-
on-mental-health-coverage.

This article, written by Jenny Gold, was written for National Public Radio. It touches on the
subject of health insurance and the lack or representation mental health has in the health care
system. Gold talks about the efforts that Congress made to include mental health as a
fundamental part of health care with the passing of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction
Equity Act, and uses facts found by a risk management and health care consulting company to
show the lack of progress truly made by insurance companies since the passing of this act.
Because health insurance coverage is a large component in improving the mental health crisis,
this article was very helpful to my project.
“Mental Disorders Affect One in Four People.” World Health Organization, World Health
Organization, 29 July 2013
www.who.int/whr/2001/media_centre/press_release/en/.

This article, published by the World Health Organization, describes the number of those affected
by mental illnesses. The article discloses that one in four people in the world will be affected by
mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives. The article explains the treatments
that are available for those suffering from mental illness that go unused. These treatments go
unnoticed or unused due to stigma, discrimination, and neglect. The article touches on the
government’s responsibility in the meant health crisis. It states that, according to the World
Health Organization, the responsibility for action lies with governments, because more than 40%
of countries have no mental health policy and over 30% have no mental health program. Around
25% of countries have no mental health legislation. Because I included mental health insurance
improvement as a possible solution to the mental health crisis in my proposal essay, I was able to
use this as a trusted source in my project.

Nordqvist, Christian. “One Million People Commit Suicide Each Year - World Suicide
Prevention Day, September 10th, 2011.” Medical News Today, MediLexicon International, 10
Sept. 2011
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/234219.php.

This article, written by Christian Nordqvist, was written for Medical News Today, a website with
a targeted educated audience of healthcare professionals and consumers. Nordqvist writes about
World Suicide Prevention Day. He includes facts he cites from the World Health Organization
about suicide rates. He touches on the importance of legislation acknowledging mental health
because it reduces the suicide rate. Because this article includes many statistics about suicide,
gender statistics about suicide, and mental health statistics, it was a very good article for me to
use for my project.

“NAMI.” Home,
www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/July-2018/Why-Asian-Americans-and-Pacific-Islanders-Don-
t-go.

This article was written by Ryann Tanap, an Asian-American blogger, and was published by the
National Alliance on Mental Illness. The article is a blog that describes a first-hand experience
about being Asian-American and facing the hardships of harboring the stigmas about seeking
therapy. Tanap recalls her first experience walking into group therapy in her early twenties. She
recalled that it took so long for her and so many other Asians to seek mental help because of what
their parents would have thought if they knew about it. She talks about the stigmas she faces about
mental illness including the ideas that: [She] must be successful and cannot show signs of
weakness; It’s a burden to share [her] emotions; [She] is ungrateful for all [she] has; It is
disrespectful to [her] spiritual beliefs; [She] does not know how to talk about mental health with
[her] relatives. The first-hand account of cultural stigmas about mental health in Asian culture
made this article good for my research.
“Psychiatrists and Nurses (per 100 000 Population).” World Health Organization, World Health
Organization, 13 May 2015,
www.who.int/gho/mental_health/human_resources/psychiatrists_nurses/en/.

This article, published for the World Health Organization, shows data about the number of
psychiatrists and nurses per 100,000 population. The data reveals that 45% of the world’s
population lived in a country where there was less than one psychiatrist to serve 100,000 people.
The data also revealed that there were 7.7 nurses working in mental health per 100,000
population globally. The article included an interactive graph and map that allowed me to
manipulate data to learn about the population’s mental health. Because the solutions I introduced
in my proposal essay included having resources available to those seeking mental assistance, the
information in this article was useful to my research.

Nieuwsma, Jason A., et al. “Indigenous Perspectives on Depression in Rural Regions of India
and the United States - Jason A. Nieuwsma, Carolyn M. Pepper, Danielle J. Maack, Denis G.
Birgenheir, 2011.” SAGE Journals, journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363461511419274.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363461511419274

This article was written by Jason A. Nieuwsma, as well as Carolyn M. Pepper, Danielle J.
Maack, and Denis G. Birgenheir. It was written for Sage Journals, a leading independent
academic publisher. The article is an abstract about depression being a major health concern in
India. The article discloses information about the historical ties that the current cultural stigmas
have. The article interestingly displayed that symptoms of depression were passed off personal
issues that reflect poor social support and spiritual reflection. The cultural stigmas in India about
mental health have caused those with depression to undermine their symptoms significantly,
compared to the “Western baseline”. This article reiterated useful information that I found from
other sources, but it helped in my research for my project.

“Unite For Sight.” Cultural Perspectives on Mental Health, www.uniteforsight.org/mental-

health/module7#_ftnref7.
https://www.uniteforsight.org/mental-health/module7#_ftnref7

This article, written for Unite For Sight, includes many outside sources. It describes what stigma
is and how it affects people influenced by stigmas. The article goes into depth about cultural
perspectives on mental illness, specifically the negative stigmas attributed to the East. The article
provides some simple solutions suggested by the World Health Organizations Mental Health
Global Action Programme to help improve the overall mental health of the population. The
article not only touches on stigmas in Asia, but also describes the differences in stigmas in the
United States by group and region. Because this article reiterated information I found in some of
my other sources, I did not cite this source in my project but I did use it in my research.
“Assessing the Economic Costs of Serious Mental Illness.” American Journal of Psychiatry,
ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.08030366.
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.08030366

This article was written by Thomas R. Insel M.D. for the American Journal of Psychiatry. The
article discusses the loss of money attributed to mental illness. This extends to untreated mental
illness in the disability system, in prisons, and on the streets. Insel describes the difference
between indirect and direct costs of mental illness. The indirect costs come from the reduced
labor supply, reduced educational attainment, the cost of incarceration, and the cost of
homelessness, for example. The direct costs come from medication, clinic visits, and
hospitalizations due to mental illness. Insel states that $193.2 billion is lost in earnings each year
from serious mental illness. In my proposal essay, to make those that do not suffer from mental
illness aware of its impact, I included information from this article to include every member of
society in the issues pertaining to mental illness.