Improving Malawian teachers' mental health knowledge and attitudes: an integrated school mental health literacy approach

A school mental health literacy curriculum resource training approach: effects on Tanzanian teachers’ mental health knowledge, stigma and help-seeking efficacy

BACKGROUND Mental health literacy (MHL) is foundational for mental health promotion, prevention, stigma reduction, and care; School supported information pertaining to MHL in sub-Saharan Africa is extremely limited, including in Tanzania. Successful application of a school MHL curriculum resource may be an effective way to increase teacher MHL and therefore help to improve mental health outcome...

Social Factors Related to Primary School Teachers\' Mental Health

Background and Aim: The human mental health is a multidimensional and complex issue affected by a wide range of biological, psychological, sociological, economic and cultural factors. Considering the social nature of human life, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between some social variables, e.g., social support, social bond, social trust and social status, and teac...

Public Attitudes, Lay Theories and Mental Health Literacy: The Understanding of Mental Health

There is a large body of research into public conceptions of mental illnesses and disorders going back over 50 years (Star, 1955). This chapter seeks to review the complex literature on this topic scattered over a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry and sociology. The aim is to provide the researcher in social psychiatry and allied disciplines the opportunit...

Empathy and Mental Health Literacy

Background: There is growing literature on mental health literacy (MHL), but few studies have conducted research on anything more than demographic predictors of MHL. We believe that those who are more empathic would be more interested in and more knowledgeable about mental illnesses. Objective: This study was concerned to establish whether people who were more empathic would have higher MHL. Me...

Mental health literacy : Public knowledge and beliefs about permissions