Mental_Health

Mental Health Mental Health, a psychological state of well-being, characterized by continuing personal growth, a sense of purpose in life, self-acceptance, and positive relations with others. Some people define mental health as the absence of mental illness, but many psychologists consider this definition too narrow. Mental health can also refer to a field of study encompassing both mental health and mental illness. II Elements of Mental Health print section Psychologists have identified a number of distinct dimensions of mental health . These include self-acceptance, or self-esteem, characterized by a positive evaluation of oneself and one’s past experiences; personal growth reflected in one’s sense of continued psychological growth and development; a sense that one’s life has purpose and meaning; positive relations with others; environmental mastery, the capacity to manage effectively in the surrounding world; and autonomy, a sense of self-determination and the ability to control one’s own life. Self-acceptance, relations with others, environmental mastery, and autonomy usually improve as a person ages and gains life experience. However, many people mental, life, health, one’s, sense, psychologists, positive, growth, well-being, self-acceptance, relations, purpose, personal, people, others, influence, areas, study, social, section, role, reflected, psychological, print, person, overall, number, negative, mastery, illness, identified, family, experiences, environmental, community, characterized