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Thesis Statement

Effects of social and environmental factors on the mental health.

Mental Health

Mental health is an integral characteristic of the usefulness of individual psychological functioning. Understanding the nature and mechanisms for maintenance and repair violations. Mental health is closely connected with the general notion of identity and mechanisms of its development.

In psychology and medicine, there are different approaches to mental health, addressed to various aspects of normal and abnormal functioning. The traditional medical model views mental health as a measure of the likelihood of developing the disease ("negative" definition of health as the absence of disease). In view of the health of psychoanalysis as such is absent, each person acts as a carrier of a "Pathos," the potential of the disease, which move in the "nozos" - the actual disease - prevents a balanced mode of operation of defense mechanisms and compensation of individual psychodynamics. For behaviorism is characterized by the reduction of personality to her social functioning, and to the definition of standards and health through the concept of equilibrium with the environment, using criteria such as adaptation, stability, success, productivity, conformity.

A fundamentally different approach emerged in the 60s, when based on the Human Potential movement (Esalen Institute, USA) and the development of the ideas of humanistic and existential psychology was offered the concept of "positive mental health", in which emphasis is given to the specific mode of human existence. In the center of this approach was made analysis of healthy functioning as a positive process that has independent value and content is described through the concepts of self-realization, self-actualization, full human functioning, authenticity, the desire for meaning, etc. However, the characteristic patterns of positive mental health was largely descriptive of, lists of features that characterize a healthy person does not answer the practical question of the mechanisms of maintaining and restoring mental health in its violations. Different models of mental health are addressed to different levels of regulating the activity of the subject, and, accordingly, to different target exposure. BS Bratus proposed a tiered model of mental health by providing several levels of personality structure, each of which corresponds to their understanding of mental health. According to this model, the highest level of personal health, responsible for the production of semantic orientations, the general definition of the meaning of life, attitudes toward self and others, has a regulating effect on the lower levels, which characterize the degree of adaptation and psycho-physiological state. Modern theoretical, experimental and applied approaches in personality psychology and psychotherapy is characterized by mental health as maturity, integrity and personal self-regulation mechanisms of the activity, a measure of a person's ability to transcend ("output beyond"), its biological, social and semantic determinacy (see Determination), speaking active and autonomous subject of his life in a changing world.

In end, it gets highlighted that MENTAL HEALTH, is a set of attitudes, skills and functional abilities, which allow the individual to adapt to the environment. This is the most common definition, but to develop a universally acceptable ...