Promoting Community Mental Health
Promoting Community Mental Health is a new concise guide offering innovative strategies and practical tools that people from all walks of life can implement in their efforts to improve the emotional and physical health of their communities.
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- Title Promoting Community Mental Health
- Page Count 200
- ISBN-13 978-0-942364-02-6
- Author Paula Worby, Todd Jailer
- Publisher Hesperian Health Guides
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“Who is a mental health promoter? You are.”
— Promoting Community Mental Health
Promoting Community Mental Health emphasizes strategies and activities to change the inequalities, isolation, and other community conditions that make good mental health so difficult to achieve in the United States.
Topics covered include stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, depression, violence including gun violence and gender-based violence, anger, people in crisis, alcohol and drug addiction, and mental health at different stages of life. Importantly, this book also provides guidance on how to identify and manage situations that require professional support, and how to ensure those promoting mental health can care for their own well-being.
Developed with input from 26 community-led groups across the U.S., this 200-page resource helps community organizers, health workers, faith groups, and individuals integrate mental health promotion into their work and lives.
A Spanish language version is forthcoming.
Will you be using Promoting Community Mental Health or other Hesperian materials in your work? Email MentalHealth@hesperian.org and let us know!
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Table of Contents (PDF)
Chapter 1: Building Community Builds Mental Health (PDF)