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  title info:
    title: Current concepts of positive mental health
  title info:
    title: PsycBOOKs
  name:
    name part: Jahoda, Marie.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1958
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 136 pages)
  abstract: "Mental health is an individual and personal matter. It involves a living human organism or, more precisely, the condition of an individual human mind. A social environment or culture may be conducive either to sickness or health, but the quality produced is characteristic only of a person; therefore, it is improper to speak of a "sick society" or a "sick community." In speaking of a person's mental health, it is advisable to distinguish between attributes and actions. The individual may be classified as more or less healthy in a long-term view of his behavior or, in other words, according to his enduring attributes. Or, his actions may be regarded as more or less healthy--that is, appropriate--from the viewpoint of single, immediate, short-term situation. Standards of mentally healthy, or normal, behavior vary with the time, place, culture, and expectations of the social group. In short, different peoples have different standards. Mental health is one of many human values; it should not be regarded as the ultimate good in itself. No completely acceptable, all-inclusive concept exists for physical health or physical illness, and, likewise, none exists for mental health or mental illness. A national program against mental illness and for mental health does not depend on acceptance of a single definition and need not await it. Many scientific investigators have thought about the psychological content of positive mental health. A review of their contributions reveals six major approaches to the subject: a. Attitudes of the individual toward himself; b. Degree to which person realizes his potentialities through action; c. Unification of function in the individual's personality; d. Individual's degree of independence of social influences; e. How the individual sees the world around him; and f. Ability to take life as it comes and master it. One value in American culture compatible with most approaches to a definition of positive mental health appears to be this: An indiv…
  note: a report to the staff director, Jack R. Ewalt, 1958.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-126).
  subject:
    topic: Mental health
  subject:
    topic: Mental Health
  subject:
    topic: Santé mentale
  subject:
    topic: Geestelijke gezondheid
  subject:
    topic: Mental health
  classification: RA790 .J29
  classification: 131.32
  classification: W1 JO1806 no.1 1958
  classification: 77.99
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    title info:
      title: Current concepts of positive mental health
    name:
      name part: Jahoda, Marie.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, Basic Books [1958]
    identifier: (DLC) 58011681
    identifier: (OCoLC)649688
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Monograph series (Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health) ; no. 1
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  record info:
    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 090131
    record change date: 20260612153151.5
    record identifier: in00003520160
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng