Mental health literacy: A review of what it is and why it matters

A Furnham, V Swami - International Perspectives in …, 2018 - econtent.hogrefe.com
… and society health literacy has long been recognized, there has been less work on mental
health literacy, which is the ability to recognize, manage, and prevent mental illness. In this …

Mental health literacy: Public knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders

AF Jorm - The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2000 - cambridge.org
… that mental health literacy can be improved. Conclusions If the public's mental health literacy
is not improved, this may hinder public acceptance of evidencebased mental health care. …

Improving mental health literacy as a strategy to facilitate early intervention for mental disorders

CM Kelly, AF Jorm, A Wright - Medical Journal of Australia, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… “mental health literacy”. Here, we review what is known about the mental health literacy of
… there are deficiencies, and examine ways in which mental health literacy can be improved. …

Mental health literacy: Past, present, and future

S Kutcher, Y Wei, C Coniglio - The Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Mental health literacy (MHL) is a construct that has arisen from the domain of health literacy
(… that low functional literacy was associated with numerous poor health outcomes. In its early …

Mental health literacy: empowering the community to take action for better mental health.

AF Jorm - American psychologist, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
… the term mental health literacy, which we defined as “knowledge and beliefs about mental
… article, I focus on the wider needs of the whole community for greater mental health literacy. …

Why we need the concept of “mental health literacy

AF Jorm - Health communication, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
health literacy focus, which can be applied across health domains. Using the concept of mental
health literacy as … The concept of mental health literacy has had policy impacts and led to …

The Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS): A new scale-based measure of mental health literacy

M O'Connor, L Casey - Psychiatry research, 2015 - Elsevier
… Although Mental Health Literacy (MHL) has been a topic of … -based measure of MHL, the
Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS), … in scores between mental health professionals and a …

Mental health literacy levels

JL Tay, YF Tay, P Klainin-Yobas - Archives of psychiatric nursing, 2018 - Elsevier
… In summary, low mental health literacy rates caused under-reported and undiagnosed
mental health conditions. These trigger a slippery slope of untreated disorders, unemployment, …

Mental health literacy in higher education students

NJ Reavley, TV McCann… - Early intervention in …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… , these are potential settings for programmes to improve mental health literacy. A survey was
carried out with students and … They answered questions relating to mental health literacy. …

Mental health literacy”: a survey of the public's ability to recognise mental disorders and their beliefs about the effectiveness of treatment

AF Jorm, AE Korten, PA Jacomb… - Medical journal of …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
… To assess the mental health literacy of the Australian population, we surveyed a representative
national sample of adults on their knowledge of and beliefs about schizophrenia and …