NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, STRESS AND MENTAL HEALTH

Designing a Happy Learning Environment in Schools and Investigating Its Relationship with Stress and Mental Health

Mental Health and Environment

Research begins with a question. The authors chose a large one. This wa5,; g their own words: "How far is mental illness due to deep-seated causes, patter", | into the mind by genetic factors or powerful experiences of early environ^f. j within the uterus or in the first years of life? And how far is it due to the imm^'3 environment of house and family, work and community?" I In medicine and th...

Urban stress and mental health

Do we need to prepare ourselves for a more urbanised and, therefore, more depressed world? With the following article I wish to stimulate a conversation between urban planning, architecture and neuroscience, in the hope of facilitating a more nuanced understanding of how urban and rural living conditions differentially impact upon our mental health. At a first glance, there are enormous methodo...

Natural resilience and innate mental health.

Bonanno’s (January 2004) article on loss, trauma, and resilience represents another important step toward pointing psychology in a more positive and fruitful direction. Bonanno was right; psychologists have dramatically underestimated the human capacity to thrive after extremely aversive events. More important, psychologists have also failed to realize that the human capacity for resilience, hi...

Mental health and quality of residential environment.

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in the proposition that residential environment can affect mental health. AIMS To study the degree to which common mental disorder clusters according to postcode units and households. To investigate whether contextual measures of residential environment quality and geographical accessibility are associated with symptoms of common mental disorder. METH...