No unique global definition of mental health occurs. Generally, an individual’s lifestyle or habit can include signs of their mental health. Often, mental health is an emotional, psychological, and social wellness condition, characterized by the sufficient perception in interpersonal relationships, effective behavior and coping, positive self-concept, and emotional stability. Mental health can be influenced by individual, interpersonal, and social/cultural factors. Specifically, individual or personal factors include an individual’s biological composition, autonomy, self-esteem, capacity for growth, vitality, ability to find meaning in life, emotional resilience or hardiness, sense of belonging, reality orientation, and coping or stress management skills. Interpersonal relationship elements involve effective communication, capability to help others, intimacy, and a balance of separateness. Finally, social/cultural or environmental factors include a sense of community, access to adequate resources, intolerance of violence, and support of diversity among people.
Since mental health is nowadays a fundamental topic for public health and nurses due to improving mental health in patients, of all ages, the present Research Topic aims to collect all manuscripts dealing with psychiatric disorders in all ages and in all patient typologies, by highlighting nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes in this relating purpose.
Mental health is a well-being condition that allows individuals to cope with their stressed lives, improving their abilities to acquire new knowledge, work well, and also ameliorate their own communities. In this way, individuals are able to make decisions and build relationships. An unbalanced mental health condition may induce psychosocial disabilities associated with significant distress, impairment in functioning, or risk of self-harm.
Promotion and prevention interventions exist for both individuals and groups and aim to recognize the individual, social and structural determinants of mental health and decrease risks, improve coping strategies, and establish comfortable work environments for mental health.
Promotion and prevention schedules advocated and initiated by healthcare workers should include the education, training, environment, housing, and welfare fields. Additionally, mental health becomes an essential issue among children and adolescents and can be improved by approaches that promote and protect mental health, providing nurturing care, implementing school-based programs, and ameliorating the quality of community and online environments. Promoting and protecting mental health at work is an interesting area of research that can also be explored. In this regard, the well-being of healthcare workers is included since they must take care of communities, but they also must be well in their psychosocial contexts, too.
The present Research Topic aims to explore nursing perspectives on mental health psychiatric disorders in order to promote, protect and restore mental health through all areas of nursing, in all ages of the patient by a complex interplay of individual, social and structural stresses and vulnerabilities.
No unique global definition of mental health occurs. Generally, an individual’s lifestyle or habit can include signs of their mental health. Often, mental health is an emotional, psychological, and social wellness condition, characterized by the sufficient perception in interpersonal relationships, effective behavior and coping, positive self-concept, and emotional stability. Mental health can be influenced by individual, interpersonal, and social/cultural factors. Specifically, individual or personal factors include an individual’s biological composition, autonomy, self-esteem, capacity for growth, vitality, ability to find meaning in life, emotional resilience or hardiness, sense of belonging, reality orientation, and coping or stress management skills. Interpersonal relationship elements involve effective communication, capability to help others, intimacy, and a balance of separateness. Finally, social/cultural or environmental factors include a sense of community, access to adequate resources, intolerance of violence, and support of diversity among people.
Since mental health is nowadays a fundamental topic for public health and nurses due to improving mental health in patients, of all ages, the present Research Topic aims to collect all manuscripts dealing with psychiatric disorders in all ages and in all patient typologies, by highlighting nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes in this relating purpose.
Mental health is a well-being condition that allows individuals to cope with their stressed lives, improving their abilities to acquire new knowledge, work well, and also ameliorate their own communities. In this way, individuals are able to make decisions and build relationships. An unbalanced mental health condition may induce psychosocial disabilities associated with significant distress, impairment in functioning, or risk of self-harm.
Promotion and prevention interventions exist for both individuals and groups and aim to recognize the individual, social and structural determinants of mental health and decrease risks, improve coping strategies, and establish comfortable work environments for mental health.
Promotion and prevention schedules advocated and initiated by healthcare workers should include the education, training, environment, housing, and welfare fields. Additionally, mental health becomes an essential issue among children and adolescents and can be improved by approaches that promote and protect mental health, providing nurturing care, implementing school-based programs, and ameliorating the quality of community and online environments. Promoting and protecting mental health at work is an interesting area of research that can also be explored. In this regard, the well-being of healthcare workers is included since they must take care of communities, but they also must be well in their psychosocial contexts, too.
The present Research Topic aims to explore nursing perspectives on mental health psychiatric disorders in order to promote, protect and restore mental health through all areas of nursing, in all ages of the patient by a complex interplay of individual, social and structural stresses and vulnerabilities.
