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 perspective

WB 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 perspective

WB means growth and human fulfillment of one’s daimon

or 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-being

SWB 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-being

EWB consists of 6 dimensions:

self-acceptancepositive relations with

otherspersonal growth

purpose in lifeenvironmental mastery

autonomy

High levels in these dimensions indicate high

PWB

Carol 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-being

SWB 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-being

EWB consists of 6 dimensions:

self-acceptancepositive relations with

otherspersonal growth

purpose in lifeenvironmental mastery

autonomy

High levels in these dimensions indicate high

PWB

Carol 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