What does mental health have to do with well-being?
Positive mental health involves not the absence of mental disorder but rather the presence of certain mental goods. Institutions, practitioners, and theorists often identify positive mental health with well-being. There are strong reasons, however, to keep the concepts of well-being and positive men...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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Bioethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 228-234 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NCH Medical ethics ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
positive psychology
B Well-being B Welfare B positive mental health B Flourishing |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | Positive mental health involves not the absence of mental disorder but rather the presence of certain mental goods. Institutions, practitioners, and theorists often identify positive mental health with well-being. There are strong reasons, however, to keep the concepts of well-being and positive mental health separate. Someone with high positive mental health can have low well-being, someone with high well-being can have low positive mental health, and well-being and positive mental health sometimes conflict. But, while positive mental health and well-being are not identical, there is an informative conceptual connection between them. Positive mental health usually contributes instrumentally to the living of a good human life, where a good human life includes (but is not limited to) well-being. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-8519 |
| Reference: | In Beziehung stehende Manifestation "Response to ‘What does mental health have to do with well-being?’ (2021)"
Kritik in "Response to ‘What does mental health have to do with well-being?’ (2021)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12702 |
