Mental Health & Mental Illness: Our Responsibility

Mental Health or Mental Illness

re^ reader daring enough to venture beyond the glaring cover will find his a?^s in this concise treatise on Mental Health and Illness. Jhe author feels strongly that: the problem of mental illness and abnormal functioning cannot be solved unless more people, having learned about the problem, will take an active Part instead of leaving the whole situation in the hands of psychiatrists". Later he...

Mental Health—Or Mental Illness?

Our Future Mental Health

4S from the next issue Spring February) 1966?this journal will appear as a quarterly in a new, larger, completely re-designed format, hope that it will please our present ^bscribers and attract others who We not been subscribers before. MenHealth needs more readers?and are sure that more readers need Cental Health. We intend to draw the "tew Mental Health to the attention of eVer greater number...

Positive mental health and mental illness.

Based on the Mental Health Continuum Short Form administered in the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey - Mental Health (CCHS-MH), the percentages of Canadians aged 15 or older classified as having flourishing, moderate or languishing mental health were 76.9%, 21.6% and 1.5%, respectively. Compared with estimates for other countries, a higher percentage of Canadians were flourishing. In accor...

What is mental illness? Social representations of mental illness among British and French mental health professionals

: Mental health professionals are important actors in implementing public mental health policies and in shaping lay representations of mental illness. The research reported in this paper focuses on the social representations of mental illness held by these professionals in Britain and France. In interviews conducted with sixty mental health workers from a range of professional backgrounds the d...