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Theory in mental health promotion practice
Caplan and Holland have stated that ‘effective practice in mental health promotion depends on good theory’. Awareness of the wide range of theories is needed, they said, together with a critical attitude to them since theories contain contradictions and may lead users into unforeseen and unwanted implications. What is theory and why is its use […]
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Policy and mental health
Building healthy public policy is, as discussed earlier, integral to health promotion. Links can be established between all major policy areas and mental health although these are of differing strengths and some are more direct than others. A few policy areas may apply more directly to certain periods of the lifespan but most have relevance […]
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Health of the individual versus the community
Whether the main emphasis of mental health promotion should be on the health of the individual or that of the community can be debated. Within the WHO documents outlined earlier there is strong support for community level approaches and for measuring the success of actions in terms of community rather than individual level indicators. Working […]
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How does mental health promotion work?
Strengthening individuals: increasing emotional resilience through interventions designed to promote self-esteem, life and coping skills, such as communicating, negotiating, relationship and parenting skills. Strengthening communities: this involves increasing social inclusion and participation, improving neighbourhood environments, developing health and social services which support mental health, anti-bullying strategies in schools, workplace health, community safety, childcare and self-help […]
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Foundations and principles of health promotion
A report on the health of the Canadian population (Lalonde 1974) and the Alma Ata Conference (WHO 1978) are widely cited as key contributions in setting the early agenda for health promotion. Certainly it is from this time that the term ‘health promotion’, although not a new term, began to be widely used. The foundations […]
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Measuring mental health
The final part of this chapter considers what can or should be done to measure mental health. Clearly, from the arguments already made, those who think mental health is the absence of mental illness will make a different measurement from those who take a salutogenic view. Those who see it in individualistic terms will measure […]
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Theories of mental health
Resilience theories There are a number of references to resilience in mental health promotion writing. For example, Joubert and Raeburn place considerable emphasis on ‘resilience’ which they see as ‘a dynamic and human concept’ (p.16) and central to their model of mental health. In the UK the then Health Education Authority’s (HEA) treatment of mental […]
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Mental health, mental well-being and mental illness
Many people are used to hearing ‘mental health’ as a euphemism for ‘mental illness’. A real problem in talking about mental health is that very often we are led into a way of thinking based on ideas and assumptions about mental illness – issues like depression, suicide, paranoia, schizophrenia come to the fore. On the […]
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IMPLICATIONS OF ACCOUNTS OF DISEASE FOR THE D.S.M.
Before examining the implications of accounts of disease for the D.S.M. it will beuseful to review the argument of this chapter so far. In this chapter I have argued that it is neither a sufficient nor a necessary condition for something to be a disease that there be an evolutionary dysfunction. That something is an […]
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Are Mental Diseases Particularly Problematic?
Often it has been thought that mental disease is more problematic than bodily disease. As my account treats mental and bodily disease together I am under some pressure to provide reasons whydeciding whether someone suffers from a mental disease might appear particularly difficult. I suggest that questions concerning mental disease are especially frequent for rather […]
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