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THE prevailing narrative about children’s mental health is the way it is often individualised.
So we are provided with individual case studies which make good television. Producers reckon that bringing a human interest story into the news agenda makes for compelling viewing, enabling parents and children to empathise and identify with the individual in focus.
But the danger in this conventional media approach is that it unwittingly ignores the wider class, structural and health inequalities that produce mental health problems among the poorest communities.
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