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Mental Health Promotion and Prevention

Mental Health Promotion and Prevention  Mental illness prevention What is Mental Health Promotion? Mental health promotion comprises efforts to enhance positive mental health and prevent mental illness through the overlapping spheres of health education, prevention and health protection. Such a pro-active wide-ranging campaign with mobilization of the community, professions and decision-makers, significant progress can be […]

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Mental health promotion – aetiology and demographic features

Health promotion is the focus of Chapter 1 of this book. As in many other psychiatric conditions, it is unlikely that there is one causal factor but rather a host of variables which interact to produce the eating disorder. Then, once the illness has emerged, an array of factors act to maintain the disorder. It […]

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Application of theory in a lifespan approach to mental health promotion

It is not possible to make categorical statements about mental health promotion theory and any distinctiveness it may have from general health promotion. All disciplines continue to develop their theoretical foundations and this is particularly the case with relatively new ones such as mental health promotion. We can tentatively suggest that psychological theory maintains a […]

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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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