Mental health articles
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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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What can we do about unrequited love? How can people get out of one-sided love?
How can people get out of one-sided love? 14 years old to 18 of boys and girls, are in adolescence, special love indulge in fantasy, but they are not good at self control, it is one-sided love “multiple age”. Unrequited love feelings are sincere, intense, want to take lingering marveling sometimes is difficult, but if […]
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How to Do if Children Feel Self-abased? Method to Overcome Children-Inferiority
How to do if children feel self-abased? That is the confusion of many parents. The following is a parents’ questions. A parent from Xiangtan City, Hunan Province wrote to say: My son is a third-grade pupil whose grade point is average, we never blame him, but he is depressed,having no good friends and unhappy all […]
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How to relieve pressure?
If college students’ psychological pressure is too serious ,they must seek Psychological doctor for help,if the psychological pressure is not serious ,they can also relieve it by the means of self-regulation. How to relieve pressure? Here are several ways below for college students to relieve psychological pressure: 1.develop the habit of relaxing yourself A person […]
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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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Biological Approaches To Defining Disorder
Early biologically-based accounts of disease claimed that a condition is a disease ifand only if it is statistically infrequent and reduces an organism’s life-expectancy orfertility. Some proponents of such an account have thought that it could work formental disorders as well as physical disorders. In a 1975 paper Robert Kendell usessuch a biologically-based account to […]
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