Mental health and social order
By: Manning, Nick
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Contributor(s): SHAW, Ian.
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ArticlePublisher: UK : Policy Press, jan. 1999Subject(s): ChinaPolicy & Politics 27, 1, p. 05-11Abstract: Mental health is a state characterised by psychological well-being and self-acceptance. The term "mental health" usually implies the capacity to love and relate to others and the willingness to behave in ways that bring personal satisfaction without encroaching upon the rights of others. In short this means to be well adapted and emotionally well adjusted. However, texts about positive mental health are scarce in both the policy and the medical literature and the terms is more commonly associated with social problems and the 'mentally ill'
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Mental health is a state characterised by psychological well-being and self-acceptance. The term "mental health" usually implies the capacity to love and relate to others and the willingness to behave in ways that bring personal satisfaction without encroaching upon the rights of others. In short this means to be well adapted and emotionally well adjusted. However, texts about positive mental health are scarce in both the policy and the medical literature and the terms is more commonly associated with social problems and the 'mentally ill'
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