Mental Health Promotion
Last update: 20 November 2009,
by Maureen Bell
This page includes information on the promotion of mental health,
and the prevention of mental disorders. Links are divided into
Australian and overseas lists and include
the full text of a number of books and reports. I've also included
documents which deal with public attitudes to mental illness, and
the way mental illness is portrayed in the media.
Lists of books and journal articles relating to health promotion in
mental health can be found on my bibliographies and reading lists page.
Mental health information for consumers and carers is here.
On my public health page you will find a range of declarations and
charters on health promotion
Library members have online access to a number of health promotion journals including
Health Promotion International
Health Promotion Journal of Australia
Australian
ACT Action Plan for Mental Health Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention - 2006-2008
Canberra, Mental Health Policy and Planning Unit, ACT Health, 2006.
GateHouse
Project
The Gatehouse Project is a research project aimed at promoting
emotional well-being of young people in schools. The Project has
been conducted by the Centre for Adolescent Health in Victorian
secondary schools since 1996.
Health in Public Spaces: Promoting mental health and wellbeing through the Arts and Environment Scheme
By John McLeod, Simon Pryor, and John Meade for the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, 2004.
How the Australian Media Report and Portray Suicide and Mental
Health and Illness: The Case Studies
Part of The Media Monitoring Project: A Baseline Description of How
the Australian Media Report and Portray Suicide and Mental Health
and Illness, by R Warwick Bloood, Peter Putnis, Trich Payne, Jane
Pirkis, Catherine Francis, Kerry McCallum, and Dan Andrew.
The Interrelations of Social Capital with Health and Mental Health : A Discussion Paper
By Michelle Cullen, and Harvey Whitford. Canberra, Mental Health and Special Programs Branch, Department of Health and Ageing, 2001.
Media Monitoring Project: A Baseline Description of How the
Australian Media Report and Portray Suicide and Mental Health and
Illness
The reports of two companion studies have been published
together in this volume. Details below:-
The Centre for Health Program Evaluation, at the University of
Melbourne, was contracted by the federal Department of Health and
Aged Care to conduct a quantitative study, looking at the extent of
reporting of these subjects in the media (J Pirkis et al, A
Quantitative Analysis of the Reporting and Portrayal of Suicide,
and Mental Health and Illness, in the Australian Media).
The School of Professional Communication at the University of
Canberra was contracted to conduct a qualitative study (RW Blood et
al, A Qualitative Analysis of the Reporting and Portrayal of
Suicide, and Mental Health and Illness, in the Australian Media),
looking at the nature of the material provided and how it is
characteristically framed.
Mental
Health and Illness in the Media: A Review of the Literature
C Francis, J Pirkis, D Dunt and RW Blood, Mental Health and Illness
in the Media: A Review of the Literature, Commonwealth Department
of Health and Aged Care, Canberra, 2001.
Mental Health and Work: Issues and Perspectives
Edited by Lou Morrow, Irene Verins, and Eileen Willis. Adelaide, Ausienet, 2002.
mindframe-media.info/
Mindframe-media is an online companion to the publication 'Reporting Suicide and Mental Illness - a resource for media professionals. It was developed with the assistance of media professionals, suicide and mental health experts and consumer organisations to inform appropriate reporting of suicide and mental illness, to minimise harm and copycat behaviour, and reduce the stigma and discrimination experienced by people with mental illness.
MindMatters
- Resources
MindMatters is a mental health promotion resource for secondary
schools.
National Action Plan for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health 2000
This publication outlines a strategic framework and plan for action to address the promotion, prevention and early intervention priorities and outcomes outlined in the Second National Mental Health Plan.
Office
of Mental Health - About Us - Promotion and Prevention
Resources from the Western Australian Office of Mental Health.
Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing Through Community and
Cultural Development: A Review of Literature Focussing on Community
Arts Practice
Report prepared by Douglas McQueen-Thomson, and Christopher Ziguras. VicHealth, July 2002. RMIT University was
contracted by VicHealth to review and assess the evidence base of
the Arts for Health Program in the light of existing Australian and
international studies on similar programs.
Promoting mental wellbeing through productive and healthy working conditions: guidance for employers
Issued in November 2009 by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the U.K.
NICE public health guidance 22
Promoting Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing Through Participation in Economic Activities: Key Learnings, and Promising
Practices
Victorian Health Promotion Foundation. Mental Health
Promotion Plan 1999-2002.
Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health - A
monograph (Monograph 2000)
This document provides the theoretical and conceptual foundation
for the National Action Plan for Promotion, Prevention and Early
Intervention for Mental Health and discusses in more detail a
number of issues relevant to its implementation.
Promotion,
Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health: National
Consultation
By Jennie Parnham and Debra Rickwood. Adelaide, The Australian
Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental
Health (Auseinet), 2003.
Social Capital and Mental Health and Well-being
Jennifer A. Welsh and Helen L. Berry. National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University.
Paper presented at the Biennial HILDA Survey Research Conference 16-17 July 2009.
Suicide and the Media: A Critical Review
By Jane Pirkis, and R. Warwick Blood. Canberra, Mental Health and
Special Programs Branch, Dept. of Health and Aged Care, 2001.
VicHealth Mental Health Promotion Evidence Review A Literature review focusing on the VicHealth 1999-2002 Mental Health Promotion Framework
By L Rychetnik, and A Todd. Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, 2004.
Weaving the Net: Promoting Mental Health and Wellness Through Resilient Communities
Mental Health Council of Australia, November 2006.
Overseas
Access to nature
From the National Library for Health (NLH) in the UK. - an interesting discussion of the effects of environment on mental health.
Action on Stigma: Promoting mental health, ending discrimination at work
London, Department of Health October 2006.
Attitudes to Mental Illness 2003
A report prepared by Taylor Nelson Sofres for the Department of
Health in the U.K., in May 2003.
Attitudes to Mental Illness in England 2007
The 2007 survey follows four years after the previous survey, and in this report, the most recent results are compared with those from previous years.
Attitudes to Mental Illness in England 2008
The latest survey by the Department of Health in the U.K.
CAMH: Health
Promotion
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's
leading mental health teaching hospital.
Choosing Health: Supporting the physical needs of people with severe mental illness - commissioning framework
Department of Health (U.K.) August 2006. This document provides best practice guidance for, designing, commissioning and monitoring services that will deliver improved physical health and well-being for people with severe mental illness. It describes appropriate leadership for a physical healthcare programme, roles and responsibilities of those involved and provides case studies.
Choosing Mental Health: A Policy Agenda for Mental Health and
Public Health
This document was produced by the Mental Health Foundation (U.K.)
in March 2005. Public mental health is an emerging field which the
Mental Health Foundation has identified as one of its priority
areas. It has been described as the art, science and politics of
creating a mentally healthy society.
Community Renewal and Mental Health: Strengthening the Links
By Marsali Cameron , Teresa Edmans, Angela Greatley , and David Morris. London, King's Fund, September 2003.
Effective Health Care
Bulletin 3 (3) June 1997, Mental Health Promotion in High Risk Groups
These bulletins, based on a systematic review and synthesis of
research on the clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and
acceptability of health service interventions, are produced by the
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York.
Europa - Public Health - Health determinants - Lifestyle - Mental Health
Resources on promotion of mental health from the European Union's Directorate General for Health and Consumers. Documents include the European Pact for Mental Health and Well-being, resulting from a conference held in June 2008.
Evaluating
a Pilot Mental Health Promotion Training Initiative: Promoting
Mental Health: Raising Awareness
By Robert Stevenson and Pamela Johnstone. NHS Health Scotland,
2005.
Feeding Minds: The impact of food on mental health
This report lays out the evidence linking trends in food consumption with mental ill-health, and supports the case for an integrated approach to the treatment of mental health problems, identifying nutrition as a key component. Mental Health Foundation, January 2006. A second report, Changing Diets, Changing Minds: How food affects mental well being and behaviour, from Sustain, the alliance for better farming and food, is intended to accompany the Foundation's Feeding Minds report.
Feeling Good: Promoting Children's Mental Health
These activity sheets, produced by the SCMH mentality team, provide parents and their children aged 4 to 7 with a unique resource to help them talk about how they feel and what makes them happy or sad, stressed or secure.
Green Exercise: Complementary Roles of Nature, Exercise, and Diet in Physical and Emotional Wellbeing and Implications for Public Health policy
By Jules Pretty, Murray Griffin, Martin Sellens, Chris Pretty
University of Essex, Centre for Environment and Society, March 2003.
CES Occasional Paper 2003-1
How to promote mental health
From Mental Health Care, a consumer resource produced by the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and Rethink.
The Impact of Spirituality on Mental Health: A review of the literature
By Deborah Cornah on behalf of the Mental Health Foundation. London, Mental Health Foundation, July 2006. This report reviews the evidence and explores the impact that
some expressions of spirituality can have as part of an integrative approach to understanding mental
health and wellbeing.
Liverpool 08 European Capital of Culture: Mental Well-being Impact Assessment
By Helen West, Julie Hanna, Alex Scott-Samuel, and Anthea Cooke. IMPACT, University of Liverpool, Division of Public Health, December 2007. IMPACT were commissioned to undertake a Mental Well-being Impact Assessment (MWIA), piloting the newly developed MWIA toolkit, to identify potential positive and negative impacts on the health and well-being of those directly and indirectly affected by the Capital of Culture programme.
Making it Effective: A guide to evidence based mental health promotion
Radical mentalities briefing paper 1. London, Mentality, 2003. Mentality was established as a registered charity in April 2000, and was the first national charity dedicated solely to promoting mental health in the UK.
Making it Happen: A Guide to Delivering Mental Health Promotion
Department of Health (U.K.) August 2001.
Making it Possible: Improving Mental Health and Well-Being in
England
This document sets out a framework for action to raise public
awareness of how to look after personal mental health and other
people's, and to involve communities and organisations in taking
positive steps to promote and protect mental well-being.
Mental Capital and Wellbeing
The aim of the Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing has been to advise the Government on how to achieve the best possible mental development and mental wellbeing for everyone in the UK in the future. The full text of project reports is available at this site.
Mental Health and Work: Impact, Issues and Good Practices
By Gaston Harnois, and Phyllis Gabriel, this document is a joint product of the World Health Organization and the International Labour Organisation.Geneva, 2000.
Mental Health Improvement Research
Resources from Health Scotland. Health Scotland is the national agency for improving health, a Special Health Board in NHS Scotland.
Mental Health Promotion For People With Mental Illness - A Discussion Paper
By Bonnie Pape, and Jean-Pierre Galipeault. Mental Health Promotion Unit of The Public Health Agency of Canada, April 2002.
Mental Health Promotion - Implementing Standard One of the National Service Framework for Mental Health
Briefing Paper 24, produced by The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, 28/01/2004.
Mental Health Promotion Think Tank
Resources from the Mental Health Promotion Think Tank - November 4, 2008. Centre for Mental Health Promotion at the University of Toronto.
Mental Health, Resilience and Inequalities: how individuals and communities are affected
This WHO/Europe report, published in 2009, looks at how these factors are interrelated, and their effects – both good and bad – on individuals and communities, as well as the action that needs to be taken.
Mental Well-being Impact Assessment Toolkit
Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP), North West Development Centre, March 2007. This toolkit is intended to support policy-makers, planners, people delivering programmes and services and people living in communities in understanding how they currently, and have potential to, improve the mental well-being of communities.
Mentally Healthy Communities: A Collection of Papers
Canadian Institute for Health Information, ed., Mentally Healthy
Communities: A Collection of Papers. Ottawa, Ont.: Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2008.
National
Programme for Improving Mental Health and Well-Being Action Plan
2003-2006
The plan sets out how the major aims and priority areas for action
will be taken forward by the National Programme up until 2006.
Scottish Executive, September 2003.
Natural Thinking
A Report by Dr William Bird, for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, investigating the links between the natural environment, biodiversity and mental health, June 2007.
NeLMH : Case 3: Social capital - individuals
Describes the elements of social capital and how they relate to health and mental health. From the National Electronic Library for Health: Mental Health, in the U.K.
NeLMH
mental health promotion
Resources from the National Electronic Library for Health:
Mental Health, in the U.K.
Not All in the Mind: The Physical Health of Mental Health Service Users
Radical Mentalities: Briefing Paper 2, by Linda Seymour. Mentality, September 2003. This report, based on qualitative research with service users, looks at user perspectives on all aspects of physical health, from exercise to smoking cessation, and makes a series of recommendations for improving physical health care for people with mental health problems.
Prevention and
Promotion in Mental Health
WHO Meeting on Evidence for Prevention and Promotion in Mental
Health: Conceptual and Measurement Issues (2001: Geneva,
Switzerland). World Health Organization, 2002.
Prevention of Mental Disorders: Effective Interventions and Policy
Options: Summary Report
A report of the World Health Organization Deptartment of Mental
Health and Substance Abuse; in collaboration with the Prevention
Research Centre of the Universities of Nijmegen and Maastricht.
World Health Organization, 2004.
Promoting
Mental Health: A Resource for Spiritual and Pastoral Care
Published by the Church of England, the National Institute of
Mental Health in England, and mentality (a mental health promotion
team at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health)
Promoting
Mental Health: Concepts, Emerging Evidence, Practice.
A report from the World Health Organization, Department of Mental
Health and Substance Abuse in collaboration with the Victorian
Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) and the University of
Melbourne. World Health Organization, 2005.
Promoting the Mental Health of the Population. Towards a Strategy
on Mental Health for the European Union
European Commission Green Paper, October 2005. This paper outlines
the relevance of mental health for some of the EU’s strategic
policy objectives (prosperity, solidarity and social justice,
quality of life of citizens), proposes the development of a
strategy on mental health at Community-level and identifies its
possible priorities.
Promotion and Education: The Evidence of Mental Health Promotion Effectiveness: Strategies for action
Special edition (2005) of the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education: a multilingual journal, which publishes authoritative peer-reviewed articles and practical information for a world-wide audience of professionals interested in health promotion and health education.
Public
Health Agency of Canada - Mental Health Promotion Publications
Public health interventions to promote positive mental health and prevent mental health disorders among adults
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), Evidence Briefing, January 2007. This briefing is intended to identify all relevant systematic reviews, syntheses, meta-analyses and review-level papers on non-pharmacological interventions to promote positive mental health and prevent mental health disorders in adults aged over 16.
Reducing Risks for
Mental Disorders: Frontiers for Preventive Intervention
Research
From the National Academy Press, Reducing Risks for Mental
Disorders: Frontiers for Preventive Intervention Research.
Patricia J. Mrazek and Robert J. Haggerty, Editors; Committee on
Prevention of Mental Disorders, Institute of Medicine, 1994.
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)
Model Programs: Publications
From the Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration in the United States.
Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland: The Future of Mental Health Improvement in Scotland 2008-11
DG Health and Wellbeing, Scottish Government, October, 2007. This paper outlines the proposed future direction for mental health improvement and population mental health in Scotland for 2008-11.
Toward Flourishing for All... Mental Health Promotion and Mental Illness Prevention. Policy Background Paper
By Kathy GermAnn and Paola Ardiles. Commissioned by the Pan-Canadian Steering Committee for Mental Health Promotion and Mental Illness Prevention. Final version: April 2009.
Toward Flourishing for All... Companion Document. Mental Health Promotion & Mental Illness Prevention Policy in International Jurisdictions
By Kathy GermAnn and Paola Ardiles. Commissioned by the Pan-Canadian Steering Committee for Mental Health Promotion and Mental Illness Prevention. Final version: April 2009.
Well? Magazine
A bi-annual magazine on improving mental health and wellbeing in Scotland.
Wellbeing podcasts: Mental Health Foundation
These podcasts were launched at a series of BBC Headroom events. They cover a range of topics, from sleep and relaxation to positive thinking.
wellscotland.info
A mental health promotion site from the Scottish Government.
What's it Worth? The Social and Economic Costs of Mental Health Problems in Scotland (2007)
A report prepared in by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health for SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health).
Young people & mental health: a systematic review of research on barriers and facilitators
By A Harden, R Rees, J Shepherd, G Brunton, S Oliver, and A Oakley. London: EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, September 2001. This report is intended to provide a summary of evidence to help develop, implement and evaluate interventions for promoting good mental health amongst young people aged 11 to 21 years.
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