Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health

Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health



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English | 616 pages | Oxford University Press; 1st edition (November 27, 2018) | 0198792999 | PDF | 245.44 Mb

Prevention of mental illness and mental health promotion have often been ignored in the past, both in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. Recently, however, there has been a clear shift towards public mental health, as a result of increasing scientific evidence that both these actions
have a serious potential to reduce the onset of illness and subsequent burden as a result of mental illness and related social, economic and political costs. A clear distinction between prevention of mental illness and mental health promotion is critical. Selective prevention, both at societal and
individual level, is an important way forward.