Promoting Resilience, Retention, and Mental Health

Resilience and mental health.

The relationship between disease and good health has received relatively little attention in mental health. Resilience can be viewed as a defence mechanism, which enables people to thrive in the face of adversity and improving resilience may be an important target for treatment and prophylaxis. Though resilience is a widely-used concept, studies vary substantially in their definition, and measu...

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...

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...