According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health is “a state of well-being in
which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of …

It has become clichéd to say that mental health is undervalued, that little is done to promote
mental health or prevent mental health conditions from occurring, that mental health services …

Seven models for conceptualizing positive mental health are reviewed: mental health as
above normal, epitomized by a DSM-IV's Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) score of …

The World Health Organization (WHO) releases yearly the World Health Report (1). This
publication provides an authoritative overview of the global health situation and …

Adoption of the Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 by the World Health
Assembly in May 2013 provides the clearest example to date of the increasing commitment …

An estimated 400 million people suffer from mental or neurological disorders or from
psychosocial problems such as those related to alcohol and drug abuse. Many of them …

We know from mortality statistics that over the last century human life expectancy has
increased as never before–though not always for the poor of the planet, who are still easy …

This book provides a new generation of research in which scholars are investigating mental
health and human development as not merely the absence of illness or dysfunction, but also …

Psychiatry has failed to improve the average levels of happiness and well-being in the
general population, despite vast expenditures on psychotropic drugs and psychotherapy …

Mental health does not exist on its own. It is an integral and essential part of overall health,
which can be defined in at least three ways–as the absence of disease, as a state of the …