Mental Health Stakeholders' Perception Toward Mental Illness in West Java

Mental health workers ’ attitudes toward mental illness in Fiji

Results The participants expressed both positive and negative attitudes toward individuals in mental health care. Positive attitudes can be identified in a range of answers to questions including psychosocial causational beliefs and when comparisons were made with physical health issues. Negative attitudes were expressed with respect to alcohol abuse and lack of self control, individuals with m...

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?

Missourians’ Attitudes Toward Mental Illness

 Respondents were most likely to correctly identify major depressive disorder (MDD), depression that occurs in the elderly, and post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD). They were least likely to be able to correctly identify bipolar disorder, followed by schizophrenia Females, more educated respondents, suburban respondents, and those with more personal experience with mental illness were most s...

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...