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Mind

Health


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We cannot even really know what causes

neurotic suffering, until we have an idea of

what causes real health. This we have only

began to investigate

- Erick Erickson


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1. On anxiety 57,800

2. On depression 70,856

3. Life satisfaction 5,701

4. Joy 851

- Diener E.

Psychological Bulletine, 1999

1978 - President Commission on Mental Health.

1993 - Global assessment of functioning in DSM-IV


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1. To abate violence & aggression

2. To control abnormal behavior

3. To contain deviant behavior4. To reduce suffering

5. To feel more comfortable

6. To assess mental condition

7. To assess mental health

8. To promote mental health


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Mananalam mannuyirku akkaminanalam ellah pugazhum tharum

- Kural (457)


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English Translation:

Mental Health yields good opulence to all

beings on earth. Peer or original health will

bring in all glory


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1. Average

2. Normal

3. Disturbing

4. Values


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Mental Health as:

1. Above normal

2. Positive psychology

3. Maturity

4. Social-emotional intelligence

5. Subjective well being

6. Resilience


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Man is born, grows up and dies, according to

certain laws which have never been properly

investigated. Rather than focus on pathology..

to approach more closely to what is good and

beautiful

- Adolf Quitlet (1835)


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- Freud


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Joint Commission on Mental illness and

health 1958

- Jahoda

Get rid of the term Mental Health of vague,

elusive and a ambiguous connotation


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Ability to love, work and play

Efficient problem solving

Investment of life

Autonomic

- Jahoda


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Health sickness rating scale a scale of 0 to 100

Global assessment scale 1976

- Bull Meninger (1972)


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Usefulness of Health sickness rating scale

as an International thermometer of mental

health.

- Armelius (1991)

DSM III Axis - 5


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No single measure to find mental health.

But all measures are highly inter correlated.

An ideal state of completer functioning,

integration of resilience in the face of stress,

of happiness and social effectiveness


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1. Cross cultural validation

2. Primary prevention is superior

3. Therapeutic intervention to achieve it

We need to study individuals with positive mentalhealth in the way the agronomist study wheat thatis resistant to drought and blight.

- George Valliant


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1. As old as Aristotle

Utopian Ideal

2. Morality

3. Character and

virtue


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Humanistic psychology


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Moralising about Mental Health and study it

with conscientiousness and impartiality and

constructive experimentation

- Adolf Meyer (1925)


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Learned Optimism

- Seligman (1991)


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Talents

Enablers

Strengths

Outcome


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1. Utopia is one of the bogeymen of national

health policy makers

2. Dangers of culturally insensitive prescription of

parochian virtues

3. Emphasis on optimism


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Keeping wounds clean is healthy but not a virtue

Bodily hygiene in public place is a virtue but not

necessarily a healthy one

Learned optimism


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Adult mental health reflects a continuous process

of maturational unfolding.


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Brain gets worse with age.So why should the mind get better.


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Integrity

Keeper of the Meaning

Generativity

Career

Consolidation

Intimacy

Identity


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Mental health as social emotional intelligence

Anyone can become angry. That is easy


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But to be angry,- with the right person

- to the right degree

- at the right time

- for the right purpose- in the right way

is not that easy.

- Aristotle


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