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Person-Centered Mental Health Promotion and Public Health Perspectives

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Mental health promotion is a concept akin to prevention, but whilst prevention’s aim is to avoid illness the aim of promotion is to enhance health. This paper deals with a conceptual review of health and mental health, with the antecedents of health promotion, its targets, the target population, the various mental health promotion initiatives, the public health perspective, and a guidance on mental health promotion. It is pointed out that mental health promotion projects must prove their effectiveness and must be sustainable, especially with reference to continued availability of resources. The relevance of the person-centered and people-centered approach in mental health promotion is underlined and it is pointed out that the aim of our efforts should be to transfer the person-centered humanistic, holistic and dignity-promoting approach into mental health promoting strategies.

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  1. Hellenic Psychiatric Association, 11 Papadiamantopoulou Street, 11528, Athens, Greece

    George N. Christodoulou MD, PhD

  2. Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    George N. Christodoulou MD, PhD

  3. Professor of Social Psychiatry, University of Coburg, Coburg, Germany

    Wolfgang Rutz MD, PhD

  4. Senior Consultant, International and Public Mental Health, Stockholm, Sweden

    Wolfgang Rutz MD, PhD

  5. Professor of Psychiatry, The National Center of Excellence in Youth Mental Health and the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Helen Herrman MD

  6. President-elect, World Psychiatric Association, Geneva, Switzerland

    Helen Herrman MD

  7. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Nikos G. Christodoulou MD, PhD

  8. Consultant Psychiatrist, Nottingham General Hospital, Nottingham, UK

    Nikos G. Christodoulou MD, PhD

  9. Psychologist, Psychoanalyst and Director of the Munich Training and Research Institute of the German Academy of Psychoanalysis, Munich, Germany

    Margit Schmolke PhD

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    Juan E. Mezzich

  2. Laboratory Ethics, Professionalism, University of Western Brittany, Bohars, France

    Michel Botbol

  3. Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    George N. Christodoulou

  4. Department of Psychiatry, WASHINGTON UNIV SCH MED Department of Psychiatry, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

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  5. Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Coral Gables, Florida, USA

    Ihsan M. Salloum

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Christodoulou, G.N., Rutz, W., Herrman, H., Christodoulou, N.G., Schmolke, M. (2016). Person-Centered Mental Health Promotion and Public Health Perspectives. In: Mezzich, J., Botbol, M., Christodoulou, G., Cloninger, C., Salloum, I. (eds) Person Centered Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39724-5_22

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