What ismental health?

“Mental Health refers to a broad array of activities directly or indirectly related to the mental well-being

component included in the WHO's definition of health”

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely

the absence of disease or infirmity”WHO constitution (1947)

Mental

Well-being(2400 years of debate)

Hedonistic perspectiveWB is a subjective experienceof positive affect

WB is an outcome

Are you happy? How happy are you?

Reductionistic(common denominator)

Jeremy Bentham and other utilitarians

Eudaimonistic perspectiveWB means growth and human

fulfillment of one’s daimonor true nature

WB is not an outcome but a process

What contributes to self-realization?

What makes your life go well?

Multi-dimensional : List of Goods

Aristotle Martha C. Nussbaum

Welfare economics

Well-being(current debate applied to health and mental health)

Subjective Well-beingSWB means experiencing:- high level of positive affect,- low level of negative affect and- a high degree with satisfaction with life

2 hedonistic components and one cognitive component

Satisfaction or Happiness

Daniel Kahneman andEd Diener

Psychological Well-beingEWB consists of 6

dimensions:self-acceptance

positive relations with others

personal growthpurpose in life

environmental mastery autonomy

High levels in these dimensions indicate high

PWBCarol D Ryff

“Mental Health refers to a broad array of activities directly or indirectly related to the mental well-being

component included in the WHO's definition of health”

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely

the absence of disease or infirmity”WHO constitution (1947)

Mental

Well-being(current debate applied to health and mental health)

Subjective Well-beingSWB means experiencing:- high level of positive affect,- low level of negative affect and- a high degree with satisfaction with life

2 hedonistic components and one cognitive component

Satisfaction or Happiness

Daniel Kahneman andEd Diener

Psychological Well-beingEWB consists of 6

dimensions:self-acceptance

positive relations with others

personal growthpurpose in life

environmental mastery autonomy

High levels in these dimensions indicate high

PWBCarol D Ryff

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Mental Health

High levels of symptoms of mental illness

Low levels of symptoms of mental illness

High levels of WB

Low levels of WB

Miserable

High levels of burden for the persons in your

environment

You function in society but you do not feel well

Flourishing