Promoting Campus Mental Health Literacy

Promoting health literacy.

This report reviews some of the extensive literature in health literacy, much of it focused on the intersection of low literacy and the understanding of basic health care information. Several articles describe methods for assessing health literacy as well as methods for assessing the readability of texts, although generally these latter have not been developed with health materials in mind. Oth...

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...

Promoting Mental Health

Promoting Mental Health

Promoting youth mental health.

Child and adolescent psychiatrists often work with children before mental health conditions ve fully formed. Specialists working in the d say this opportunity to intervene early d improve quality of life for decades to e is what makes their specialty so arding. In this issue of MJA Careers, talk to several child and adolescent chiatrists, ranging from a registrar (page C2), to a prominent, expe...