She has a background in infant, child and adolescent mental health with a strong interest
in mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention.
I like, like you is an innovative family violence prevention and
mental health promotion program that promotes the connection between healthy relationships, and emotional health and wellbeing.
These learning experiences and resources are intended to facilitate design, implementation and sustainability of evidence - based practices that
support mental health promotion, prevention and intervention.
The initiative provides a continuous improvement framework to enable early childhood and care services to plan and implement evidence
based mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention strategies.
«The COPMI website: supporting a
national mental health promotion strategy»: This presentation provided an overview of the development, functions and content of the Australian COPMI national initiative website.
The Aussie Optimism program (AOP; Roberts et al., 2010) is a universal
mental health promotion strategy designed to reduce and prevent anxiety, depression, and suicidal behavior in young adolescents.
Universal
school mental health promotion programmes can be effective and long - term interventions that aim to promote the positive mental health of all pupils and involve changes to the school climate likely to be more successful than brief class - based mental illness prevention programmes
This is a development post, building on Brent Mind's previous success with the «Mind Map» service which did
mental health promotion work with many secondary schools in Brent.
The program will integrate key existing Commonwealth
Government mental health promotion and suicide prevention and response initiatives being delivered in education settings: pre-service training in University and VET settings, KidsMatter Early Childhood and Primary, MindMatters, and Post Suicide Support.
«Both Mindframe and Response Ability have been instrumental in building the capacity of future media practitioners and teachers so that their professions can
influence mental health promotion and suicide and mental ill - health prevention,» she said.
Norway and Sweden have joined Finland in
legislating mental health promotion and disorder prevention for dependent children in health services for adults from the beginning of 2010.
Our study gives support to the countrywide EC&F Programme in Finland [35] in its efforts to make a system change in psychiatric services for adults to include
child mental health promotion and disorder prevention.
In addition to the prevention of mental illness,
mental health promotion involves tackling risk factors and promoting positive aspects of individuals» lives and their overall quality of life [1].
It is perhaps even more critical to highlight whether investment in the promotion of mental health and well - being might represent good value for money and help avoid future costs of poor mental health during the current austere climate when health and other public sector budgets are under substantial pressure, and
when mental health promotion may not be seen as a high priority for policy makers (McDaid and Knapp, 2010).
Dr. Glen Roberts, executive director of the Canadian Policy Network at the University of Western Ontario, said, «If you really want the best returns on investment in the area
of mental health promotion and illness prevention, it probably should be in the school system,» he said Tuesday.
In addition, research - based methodologies need to be examined and selected in the context of cultural values and other social factors, such as class, race, ethnicity, and community To this end, several important questions must be addressed when considering culturally competent, evidence - based practices in early
childhood mental health promotion, prevention, and intervention:
The KidsMatter Early Childhood initiative provides a continuous improvement framework to enable early childhood and care services to plan and implement evidence
based mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention strategies that aim to:
In fact, we were able to identify several economic analyses with some focus
on mental health promotion (Table 3), largely from a US context where employers have had an not inconsiderable incentive to invest in workplace health promotion programmes, given that they typically have to pay health - care insurance premiums for their employees (Dewa et al., 2007).
The application of a clear framework
about mental health promotion, the prevention of mental - ill health and early intervention (Hunter Institute of Mental Health, 2015) would provide a way to build a sector - wide strategy.