1. Communiceren over (positieve) geestelijke gezondheid: een kwestie van nuances
- Author
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Soyez, Veerle, Van Brussel-De Vriendt, Leen, Verlinden, Anne, Gielen, Daan, De Decker, Eline, and Psychologie
- Abstract
Mental health is a complex and difficult to define concept, about which - both in (scientific) literature and in practice - there is still very little consensus on it (Manwell, Barbic, Robertson, & al, 2015; Van Agteren & Iasiello, 2019;World Health Organization, 2004, 2008). The term is often defined from a mental illness perspective (Cattan & Tilford, 2006): one is mentally healthy when there are no symptoms present that indicate illness.Subsequently, a narrative is created that can be be summarized: you need to notice your own negative psychological experiences, examine them introspectively and then seek help - preferably professional - for this (Foulkes,2021). More than twenty years after Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi (2000) cited in their widely cited article that "psychology is not just the study of pathology, weakness and damage" (p. 7), the same dominant discourse emphasizingpsychopathology is still present. Partly from this observation, we brought together recent scientific insights about (positive) mental health and developed a new "educational model" - the happiness triangle - that can serve as the can serve as a basis for communication, methodology development and preventive work on mental well-being.
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- 2021