A Salutogenic Mental Health Model: Flourishing as a Metaphor for Good Mental Health
| Autor: | Nina Helen Mjøsund |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
050103 clinical psychology
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Flourishing 05 social sciences Context (language use) Mental illness medicine.disease Mental health Salutogenesis 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health promotion Health care Well-being medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry business Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Health Promotion in Health Care – Vital Theories and Research ISBN: 9783030631345 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-63135-2_5 |
| Popis: | This chapter focuses on a salutogenic understanding of mental health based on the work of Corey Keyes. He is dedicated to research and analysis of mental health as subjective well-being, where mental health is seen from an insider perspective. Flourishing is the pinnacle of good mental health, according to Keyes. He describes how mental health is constituted by an affective state and psychological and social functioning, and how we can measure mental health by the Mental Health Continuum—Short Form (MHC-SF) questionnaire. Further, I elaborate on Keyes’ two continua model of mental health and mental illness, a highly useful model in the health care context, showing that the absence of mental illness does not translate into the presence of mental health. You can also read about how lived experiences of former patients support Keyes dual model of mental health and mental illness. This model makes it clear that people can perceive they have good mental health even with mental illness, as well as people with perceived poor or low mental health can be without any mental disorder. The cumulative evidence for seeing mental disorder and mental health function along two different continua, central mental health concepts, and research significant for health promotion are elaborated in this chapter. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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