The Australian government is challenged to address significant mental health policy issues. These problems include those of unemployment, incarceration, homelessness and suicide. It is therefore timely to consider inclusive and innovative approaches in which these issues might be better addressed. This is the first study to critically explore the potential of neurodiverse persons to co-produce a mental health policy as informed by the contemporary news reporting on the concept of high-functioning anxiety. Enabling such investigation, this research has applied the framework analysis technique to a purposive sample of nine news texts obtained from an Internet search enquiry. Exploratory findings reveal themes relating to prospective anxiety-related capabilities and constraints across the policy development dimensions of analysis, timeline management and stakeholder consultation. The study, while concluding that journalists within the Asia-Pacific region and elsewhere should be encouraged to report on mental diversity in ethical, balanced and progressive ways, offers a practical guide to support this.

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成为决策者！探索新闻文本为焦虑增强决策提供潜能并指导渐进报道心理多样性的研究

澳大利亚政府面临着解决重大精神卫生政策问题的挑战。这些问题包括失业，监禁，无家可归和自杀。因此，现在应该考虑采用包容性和创新性的方法，以便更好地解决这些问题。这是第一个批判性地探索神经多样的人共同制定心理健康政策的潜力的研究，这是根据有关高功能焦虑概念的当代新闻报道得出的。为了进行这种调查，本研究将框架分析技术应用于从互联网搜索查询中获得的九个新闻文本的有针对性的样本中。探索性发现揭示了与预期焦虑相关的能力和分析的整个政策制定维度相关的主题，时间轴管理和利益相关者咨询。该研究得出的结论是，应鼓励亚太地区及其他地区的新闻工作者以道德，平衡和进步的方式报道心理多样性，但该报告提供了支持这一点的实用指南。