Czesław CzabałaAcademy of Special Education

Develop person’s ability to deal with their inner world: thinking and feeling, managing life and taking risks – emotional resilience

Develop person’s ability to deal with their social world: belonging, participating, recognising mutual responsibility – citizenship

Linking the emotional and the social through a sesnse of connectedness and the development of healthy structures

IMHPA – Policy for Europe - Develop country based action plans for mental health promotion and mental disorder prevention – ten action areas

Helsinki Conference The policy and practice on mental health should cover:

- the promotion of mental well-being;- the tackling of stigma, discrimination and social exclusion;- the prevention of mental health problems;- care for people with mental health problems, providing comprehensive and effective services and interventions, offering service users and carers involvement and choice;- the recovery and inclusion into society of those who have experienced serious mental health problems.

European Commission - Improving the mental health of the population: - Promote the mental health of all; - Address mental ill health through preventive action; - Improve the quality of life of people with mental ill health or disability through social inclusion and the protection of their rights and dignity; - Develop mental health information, research and knowledge system for the EU.

European Pact for Mental Health and Well-being: - Prevention of depression and suicide depression, - Mental health in youth and education, - Mental health in workplace settings, - Mental health of older people, - Combating stigma and social exclusion

Evidence-based programmes

DataPrev, 2011Health Promotion International, 2011

Antenatal : Education aiming to improve parenting Demonstration of infant capabilities Anticipatory guidance Infant massage

Postnatal: Positive trusting parent-child relations in general Home visiting as an approach Enhancing parental sensitivity and/or infant

attachment Interventions to increase maternal sensitivity Abuse prevention Supporting teenage parenting Improvement of maternal psychosocial health Parenting support for families in high risk groups Parenting programmes for parents with severe

mental illness (SMI)

The findings of this review suggest that mental health promotion and problem prevention in schools is more effective if it:

focuses on positive mental health while including a concern with problems;

balances universal and targeted approaches; focuses explicitly on the desired outcomes; starts early with the youngest children and

continues with older students, operating for a lengthy period of time;

includes work to develop social and emotional skills in students, staff and parents;

embeds work within a multi-modal/ whole school approach;

includes changes to school ethos, to improve relationships between members of the school community;

involves parents in interventions and offers parenting education;

makes judicious use of peer education; engages with the local community; is supported by coordinated work with outside

agencies; and, once an intervention is tested and established,

ensures complete and accurate implementation.

Second Step to Violence Prevention. Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies

(PATHS), Fast Track, Social Decision Making, Raising Healthy Children – as Communities

that Care, Penn Resilience, Friends, Incredible Years.

Aims of interventions:- stress management [better coping with stress], - mental health improvement, - increased job satisfaction, - job effectiveness improvement, - and absenteeism reduction.

Types of interventions:- skills training, - improvement of occupational qualifications and working conditions, - relaxation, - physical exercises, - and multicomponent interventions.  

Most promissing programmes:-Stress Inoculation Training-Cognitive Self-Instructional Procedure - Stress Inoculation Training - Dual Resource Intervention and Single Resource Intervention-The Basic Stress Management Course-Short-term Participatory Intervention- Psychological Training Program

 

Health education Physical exercises, recommended in groups Social supprot provided in groups Life review sessions Meaningful social activities, tailored to the

older individual's abilities and preferences should be considered in aiming to improve mental health among older people.

More and more awarenness that mental health promotion works

More and more new mental health promotion programmes

High quality implementation is the guarantee of the good results

Training of the professionals is the only way how to improve the quality and outcomes of mental health promotion

Training, action, evaluation and action are the necessary conditions to make the programmes more effective