Abstract
The Response Ability Project is a collaboration between mental health professionals and journalism educators in Australia. It seeks to influence the pre-professional education of journalists so that graduates of university courses will be aware of, and are able to respond appropriately to, issues relating to suicide and mental illness. Importantly, the project situates this learning in the context of the core skills of journalism such as news writing, research, and interviewing. Multi-media resources were developed from pilot resources in 2001 and disseminated to Australian universities. This essay explores key achievements of the project, proposing a place for these issues in journalism curricula internationally.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 192-204 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Journalism and Mass Communication Educator |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- career education
- curricula
- higher education
- journalism
- journalists
- mental health education
- study and teaching (higher)
- suicide
