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Training Manual
December 2025
Covering Mental Health — BHRF Style Guide
2025
Rehana Parvin, Dr. Tasnim Reza
A practical handbook for Bangladeshi journalists on terminology, sourcing, identifying detail, suicide-reporting safeguards, and on-record interviews with patients.
Produced after the 2025 BHRF–National Institute of Mental Health workshop, this style guide is a working reference for newsroom editors and reporters. It covers preferred terminology in Bengali and English, identifying-detail safeguards, sourcing standards for clinical claims, and a chapter on suicide reporting that follows the WHO 2017 media guidelines. Each chapter ends with a short checklist and three worked examples drawn from real Bangladeshi coverage.
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