The gamification of mental health prevention and promotion

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-135
Author(s):  
Robert Anthony ◽  
Nadja Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Prevention

A meta-analysis of indicated mental health prevention programs for at-risk higher education students.

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen S. Conley ◽  
Jenna B. Shapiro ◽  
Alexandra C. Kirsch ◽  
Joseph A. Durlak
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Health Prevention ◽  
Education Students

scholarly journals The National Mental Health Strategy: Redefining Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health?

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Health Prevention ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
National Mental Health

This paper explores policy documents published as part of the National Mental Health Strategy for ideas about mental health promotion and prevention, to determine the extent to which these documents adopt a primary health care approach. Discourse analysis was undertaken of key policy documents to discover the manner in which they discuss mental health promotion and prevention. Three points of departure are identified. The first of these is a focus on social and biological risk factors that manifest at an individual rather than at a social level, effectively drawing attention away from social inequalities. These documents also primarily target a population that is viewed as being "at risk" due to exposure to risk factors, shifting attention from strategies aimed at improving the health of the population as a whole. A final difference is found in the understanding of primary health care. Recent policy documents equate primary health care with the first level of service delivery in the community, primarily by general practitioners, shifting the focus of care from mental health promotion with the community to early intervention with those experiencing mental health problems. This is supported by the incorporation of a biomedical understanding into mental health prevention. While recent mental health policy documents re-assert the need for early intervention and health prevention, the form of mental health prevention espoused in these documents differs from that which informed the Declaration of Alma Alta, Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and World Health Organization's Health for All strategy.

Promoting recovery via an integrated model of care to deliver a bed-based, mental health prevention and recovery centre

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 481-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart J Lee ◽  
Laura Collister ◽  
Simon Stafrace ◽  
Elizabeth Crowther ◽  
Jon Kroschel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Health Prevention ◽  
Model Of Care

scholarly journals A pilot study exploring the relationship between urban greenspace accessibility and mental health prevalence in the City of San Diego in the context of socioeconomic and demographic factors

Open Health ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-70
Author(s):  
Alexis Wilderman ◽  
Marcus Lam ◽  
Zhi-Yong Yin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Tree Cover ◽  
Health Prevention ◽  
Urban Greenspace ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Socioeconomic And Demographic Factors ◽  
The City

Abstract The connection between urban greenspace and mental health is a robust but unsettled area of research in the public health and urban planning literatures. Inconsistent findings in prior studies are mostly due to differences in greenspace measurements and interrelations with socio-demographic factors. This study examines the relationships of mental health prevalence (MHP) with health prevention, socioeconomic and race-ethnicity factors, and proximity to greenspace at the census-tract level in the City of San Diego, California, using data from the CDC 500 Cities Project and US Census Bureau. We considered three greenspace proximity measures: distances to specified vegetation types, parks, and tree cover. Spear-man’s rank correlation showed that MHP was significantly correlated to distances to greenspace (rho = 0.480), parks (rho = 0.234), and tree cover (rho = 0.342), and greenspace proximity plus crime occurrence explained 37.8% of the variance in MHP in regression analysis. Further analysis revealed that socioeconomic status, race-ethnicity, and health prevention explained more than 93% of the variance in MHP, while greenspace proximity did not enter the regression model with statistical significance. We discovered that certain socioeconomic and race-ethnicity variables, such as proportion of Hispanic population, poverty, and regular checkup, may fully represent the effects of greenspace on MHP in the City of San Diego. Regression analysis for three subsections of the city suggested that different predictors of MHP should be considered in formulating intervention measures. Our results indicate the need to improve mental health conditions through a range of interventions that address the disparities experienced by racial-ethnic minorities and those in lower-socioeconomic classes.

scholarly journals Some Health Risks to Firefighters

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Branko Mikula ◽  
Edina Jenčová ◽  
Iveta Vajdová ◽  
Daniel Blaško
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Toxic Chemicals ◽  
Health Prevention ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Excessive Heat ◽  
Physical Challenges

Firefighters face unique occupational health risks caused by a specific nature of their work.  They consistently operate in rough work environment with excessive heat, dense smoke, emotionally demanding situations, extreme physical challenges and toxic chemicals. This paper aimed to investigate working conditions and mental health of firefighters.  The paper has four main parts. The first part reports about main risks to firefighter’s health. The next part is dealing with the posttraumatic stress disorder.  The study is mentioning predictors of psychological distress and aspects of firefighters health prevention. The final part of the paper is dedicated to outcomes of firefighters mental health research. The main objective of firefighters work is to save lives, extinguish fire and property protection.

scholarly journals THE ART OF ACHIEVING WHOLENESS: Adult-Learning in Presence and Listening Intercultural Encounter in Healthcare and Counselling before and during Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
Ulrike Elsdörfer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Prevention ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
Religious Person ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Process Group

Counselling in healthcare is a method-based encounter between two persons. This is at least the definition according to psychology. One person, the client, has the chance to express mental, social and physical problems. The other person, the counsellor or therapist, makes use of her or his knowledge, intuition and responsiveness, in order to explore and heal. Spiritual counselling follows the same procedure. The counsellor is a trained religious person, aspects of spirituality give a distinct notion to the process. Group therapies relate to the needs of people in indigenous worlds, and non-western thinking as well as post-colonial analysis assists to make visible deep social shifts between different societies in a globalized world. Presence and listening are the two dominant qualities of a therapist, a counsellor or a spiritual advisor in this context. What happens, if exactly these qualities are rejected by needs of healthcare? How are the impacts of a globalized pandemic like COVID-19 on this concept of therapy, counselling and encounter in spiritual dimensions? What will lead to a form of community and social life? How does mental health prevention look like in times of challenges? 

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