Outcome of capacity building in mental health for well-being volunteers

Mental health and global well-being.

A range of evidence-based, cost-effective interventions can be implemented in parenting, at schools, at the workplace and in older age to promote mental health and well-being. Such programmes need to be supplemented with actions to build mental health capital and promote resilience to manage and cope with the global risks that face humankind over the coming years. Actions need to connect mental...

Mental health as eudaimonic well-being?

Many researches agree on the fact that mental health and mental illness are not categorical but rather continuous variables. It is very difficult to define the exact and precise point where health ceases and illness begins. In other words, the formal absence of mental illness is not necessarily an indicator of mental health. The definition of mental health according to the World Health Organisa...

Mental well-being in the workplace: building the business case

Capacity Building in Global Mental Health Research

Research-generated information about mental disorders is crucial in order to establish the health needs in a given setting, to propose culturally apt and cost-effective individual and collective interventions, to investigate their implementation, and to explore the obstacles that prevent recommended strategies from being implemented. Yet the capacity to undertake such research in low- and middl...

Psychological Well-being and Parenting Styles as Predictors of Mental Health among Students: Implication for Health Promotion

Introduction: The lack of mental health interferes with one's individual achievement and ability for undertaking the responsibilities of everyday life. Researches show that psychological well-being and parenting styles have an important role in ones' increasing general health. The current study examined the relationship between psychological well-being and parenting styles with students' mental...