Semiótica de la salud mental: Exploraciones sobre las formas de comunicar la salud mental en las universidades de Colombia

Abstract

This article is derived from the research entitled "ICTs, Positive Psychology and promotion of mental health in the university setting" presented to the internal research call of the University of Manizales in 2020 and articulated to the international project called «Building the Future », which is part of the second global Mental Health megaproject World Mental Health Surveys International College Student -WMH-ICS-, in which more than 100 universities from 24 countries on five continents participated. The study carried out, from a cultural semiotic perspective, explores the meaning of the way of communicating mental health in Colombian Universities, therefore, the article initially proposes the theoretical approach of the main concepts that support the research and some antecedents of studies carried out on the phenomenon. In the second part, the research team, made up of professionals from the field of Psychology and Social Communication, describe the methodology used in the development of the exercise to conclude with the analysis derived from the corpus taken from the institutional web pages and digital platforms of universities based on the communicative content disseminated around the subject of this research referred to mental health.