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• "There is no health without mental health"
• Health (WHO definition)


  A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
• Mental health is clearly an integral part of the WHO definition of health
• Mental health


  • The foundation for well-being and effective functioning for an individual and for a community
  • Individuals realize their own abilities
  • Can cope with normal stresses in life
  • Work productively and fruitfully (ability to function)
  • Make a contribution to the community
• Mental health is more than the absence of mental illness: it is vital to individuals, families, and societies
• Health cannot exist without mental health
• It is not enough for you to only manage your mental health
• Mental health is the foundation for well-being and effective functioning for an individual and for a community
• Factors that determine mental health and mental illness


  • The development and maintenance of healthy communities
  • Each person's ability to deal with the social world through skills like participating, tolerating diversity, and mutual responsibility
  • Each person's ability to deal with thoughts and feelings, the management of life, and emotional resilience
• Mental health nursing


  Application of clinical of a clinical process that is based on a synthesis of nursing and basic science concepts applying to the development, promotion, and maintenance of the mental health of individuals
• Community mental health nursing

  The nurse assists all kinds of primary socialization groups, such as families and school and work groups, to help members develop a personal organization of the self, strengthen their abilities to adapt and cope, achieve selfhood, and maintain independence and autonomy in their relationships
• Goals of community mental health nursing

  • Promote and maintain mental health of family systems and their members through prevention counseling and use of interventions
  • Maintain and increase the potential of primary groups to use their strengths to provide essential competencies for social, personal and cognitive growth that relate to positive mental health behaviors for members
  • Teach families and members to monitor their mental health and that of their communities
  • Teach families and members in primary groups to recognize tensions, coping, and communication patterns that have an adverse impact on members and learn new ones
  • Help families and members of primary groups recognize that behavior has social, cultural, and situational aspects and the influences these have in group functioning and member behavior
  • Use self-care
• Psychiatric nursing


  The science and art of providing protective, therapeutic, supportive, physical and social care to people too ill to be completely responsible for management of their own behavior
• The overall goal of psychiatric nursing is to assist patients to learn to become productive members of the society and to reach as full a potential of their assets as possible
• Mental health is essential for the Well-being and functioning of individuals
• Good Mental Health Is An Important Resource For individuals, families, communities, and nations
• Mental Health,as an indivisible part of general health, contributes to the functions of society, and has an effect on overall productivity
• Mental health Concerns everyone as it is generated In our everyday lives in homes, schools, workplaces, and in leisure activities
• Positive Mental Health Contributes To The Social, human, and economic capital of every society
• Spirituality can make a significant contribution to mental health promotion and mental health influences spiritual life