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ISSN. 1362-0347 (print) 1468-960X (web) Links. Journal homepage. BMJ Mental Health (formerly Evidence-Based Mental Health) is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of mental health. It is co-owned by the BMJ Group, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the British Psychological Society .
Journal of Mental Health. Journal of Mental Health is a bi-monthly journal established in March 1992 by Ray Hodgson (University of Wales College of Medicine, Centre of Applied Public Health Medicine, Cardiff). In 2002, Til Wykes became the Executive Editor and has continued in that role until the present time. [1][2][3]
Mental health, as defined by the Public Health Agency of Canada, [ 6 ] is an individual's capacity to feel, think, and act in ways to achieve a better quality of life while respecting personal, social, and cultural boundaries. [ 7 ] Impairment of any of these are risk factor for mental disorders, or mental illnesses, [ 8 ] which are a component ...
DSM-5. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), is the 2013 update to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the taxonomic and diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). In 2022, a revised version (DSM-5-TR) was published. [1]
A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, [ 6 ] a mental health condition, [ 7 ] or a psychiatric disability, [ 2 ] is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. [ 8 ] A mental disorder is also characterized by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's ...
The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) is an international, multi-professional non-governmental organization (NGO), including citizen volunteers and former patients. It was founded in 1948 in the same era as the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO). [1]
Mental health literacy includes the ability to recognize specific disorders; knowing how to seek mental health information; knowledge of risk factors and causes, of self-treatments, and of professional help available; and attitudes that promote recognition and appropriate help-seeking". [1] The concept of mental health literacy was derived from ...
Denial and distraction are why so many men walk around as functioning alcoholics or addicts. In the absence of knowing any better or a willingness to seek help regarding male anxiety, we plug the ...