Adult education, mental health and mental wellbeing

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Mental Health and Education

, who, among workers in the mental health field, has not remarked on the curious ?'c of substantial work on the potential contribution of education to mental health? 153

On balance: lifestyle, mental health and wellbeing

Given the supremacy of the biomedical model in defining our understanding and treatment of a wide range of physcial and psychological disorders, it is perhaps curious that simultaneously, scientists, clinicians, governments and patients routinely employ the concepts of "lifestyle" and "balance" to try to explain the causes of bodily disease and psychological disorder. Concurrently, the health a...

Probiotics for Mental Health and Wellbeing

Atlantia Food Clinical Trials Ltd has considerable experience in conducting clinical studies exploring the potential health benefits of probiotics, in a variety of health areas including digestive health and cardiovascular health. In this whitepaper we explore a relatively new area in the field of probiotics, namely the use of probiotics to promote mental health and wellbeing. A psychobiotic wa...

Promoting mental wellbeing through activity in a mental health hospital

Occupational therapists hold, at the core of their philosophy, the belief that activity can be used to work towards an improved quality of life, despite any disability (Yerxa 1983). According to Coia and Joice (1989), the ability to use activity as a treatment medium is unique to occupational therapists and vital in recovery in mental health. The recreational therapy hall offered the only widel...