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Mental health literacy enables people to make informed decisions about their mental health and facilitates early intervention and appropriate treatment. High mental health literacy rates translate to greater numbers of people seeking life-affirming treatments for mental disorders.
Mental health literacy consists of several components, including: (a) the ability to recognise specific disorders or different types of psychological distress; (b) knowledge and beliefs about risk factors and causes; (c) knowledge and beliefs about self-help interventions; (d) knowledge and beliefs about professional help available; (e ...
Mental health literacy has three major components: recognition, knowledge, and attitudes. A conceptual framework of mental health literacy illustrates the connections between components, and each is conceptualized as an area to target for measurement or intervention.
One particular body of work has focused on ‘mental health literacy’ (MHL) defined as knowledge about mental health disorders that are associated with their recognition, management, and...
Mental health literacy means: Knowing how to develop and maintain good mental health. Reducing stigma (negative attitudes and beliefs) about mental distress and mental illness. Being aware of common mental health disorders and how they can be treated. Knowing how to get help for mental health concerns.
Mental health literacy (MHL) is a construct that has arisen from the domain of health literacy (HL) and must be understood in that context. The development of HL was initially informed by observations that low functional literacy was associated with numerous poor health outcomes. 1, 2 In its early definition, HL was considered primarily within ...
This paper aims to explore how the term “mental health literacy” (MHL) is defined and understand the implications for public mental health and educational interventions.
Mental health literacy encompasses essentially four components: understanding how to achieve and maintain good mental health, understanding mental disorders and their treatments, decreasing the stigma related to mental disorders, and increasing the effectiveness of help-seeking (Nobre et al., 2021). However, some authors include optimism and ...
Mental health literacy (MHL) is a construct that has arisen from the domain of health literacy (HL) and must be understood in that context.
Mental health literacy (MHL), understood as the knowledge that helps recognize, manage, and prevent mental disorders (MD) while reducing stigma, has been identified as one of the determining factors in seeking healthcare attention (Crowe et al., 2018).