Comment: Promoting mental health in NSW

Promoting Mental Health

Promoting mental health in men.

Health promotion is essential to improve the health status and quality of life of individuals. Promoting mental health at an individual, community and policy level is central to reducing the incidence of mental health problems, including self-harm and suicide. Men may be particularly vulnerable to mental health problems, in part because they are less likely to seek help from healthcare professi...

Promoting Mental Health

Promoting youth mental health.

Child and adolescent psychiatrists often work with children before mental health conditions ve fully formed. Specialists working in the d say this opportunity to intervene early d improve quality of life for decades to e is what makes their specialty so arding. In this issue of MJA Careers, talk to several child and adolescent chiatrists, ranging from a registrar (page C2), to a prominent, expe...

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...