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Mental Health Promotion, Weekly Mind Map Activity-week ten - Coggle Diagram
Mental Health Promotion
- The concept of Mental Health Promotion (MHP) has gained recognition in Canada over the years, with a growing understanding of the importance of addressing mental health issues.
MHP focuses on enhancing the capacity of individuals and communities to improve their mental health.
It emphasizes self-esteem, coping skills, social support, and well-being, empowering people to interact with their environments in ways that enhance emotional and spiritual strength.
MHP adopts participatory and empowerment approaches that enable individuals, groups, and communities to achieve and maintain their health.
It emphasizes building upon existing strengths, assets, and capacities rather than focusing on problems and deficits.
MHP recognizes that mental health is influenced by various factors and calls for collaborative efforts to address the broader structural determinants of mental health.
e.g., housing, employment, justice, education, economic development, and environmental factors.
MHP requires interventions across a wide range of sectors, policies, programs, and settings.
It goes beyond health education and incorporates tailored and culturally appropriate approaches to promote mental health.
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- There are promising practices in MHP in Canada that showcase how mental health promotion work is being shared with various partners and sectors across the country.
The BC Healthy Connections Project is a RCT conducted by public health in BC. It aims to study the effectiveness of the NFP, an intensive home-visiting program designed to support disadvantaged young first-time mothers and their children.
The program focuses on improving children's mental health and early development, as well as enhancing mothers' life situations.
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Coordination across BC's primary care and public health prenatal services is challenged in reaching all pregnant mothers who may benefit from public health services.
Many young women who could benefit from the program may have unstable housing, unreliable work, or limited access to telephones or cellphones and some may lack good role models for maintaining healthy relationships.
The White Raven Healing Centre (WRHC) is a program of the File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council, providing mental health services, addictions counseling, Indian Residential School IAP Support, and cultural and spiritual services to First Nations within the File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council area.
The WRHC operates within a First Nation culturally appropriate, community-specific framework, integrating mainstream therapeutic techniques with traditional First Nations healing practices.
They have an interdisciplinary Mental Wellness Team composed of approved therapists, certified addictions counselors, Indian Residential School support workers, and Elders.
WRHC faces challenges due to unstable funding, making it difficult to plan for the long-term and maintain staff.
The Provincial System Support Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Ontario, known as the CAMH Health Promotion Resource Centre, focuses on strengthening public health leadership and providing system-level support in the area of MHP and substance misuse prevention.
CAMH HPRC engages in partnerships with provincial public health system partners and local partners to conduct surveys and understand the range of activities, initiatives, services, and programming undertaken by public health units to address and promote mental health in children and youth.
The resulting report, "Connecting the Dots: How Ontario Public Health Units are Addressing Child and Youth Mental Health," highlights the involvement of public health units in various activities and initiatives driven by local needs.
The report identifies key enablers, such as partnerships, strong leadership, staff expertise, and embedded approaches to addressing child and youth mental health.
The report identifies barriers, including limited resources, lack of a specific provincial mandate, coordination challenges, stigma, and gaps in the mental health service system.
- Health promotion practitioners in Canada can effectively integrate MHP into their practice, contributing to a culture shift towards the promotion of mental health and wellbeing.
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by identifying promising practices in mental health promotion which involves recognizing successful interventions and initiatives that have been implemented across Canada.
These practices can serve as examples and inspiration for integrating MHP into health promotion practice.
by collaborative approaches essential for integrating mental health promotion into health promotion practice and working with various stakeholders.
Policymakers, professionals from other sectors, and community members, to develop policies, programs, and services that address mental health and wellbeing.
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by promoting partnerships and networks crucial for coordinating mental health efforts across Canada.
Fostering collaboration/communication among different organizations, agencies, and individuals working in the field of MHP, in order to share knowledge, resources, and best practices.
- The study by Hinrichsen et al, introduces a taxonomy of roles within intersectoral MHP practices consisting of five roles: decision-maker, MHP specialist, MHP coordinator, MHP practitioner, and end user.
Each role comes with a portfolio of key functions, though functions may overlap between roles.
The taxonomy helps to move beyond job titles or professional background and focuses on the functions performed within MHP practices.
The taxonomy adds to existing frameworks by providing a practice-oriented language that can be used across sectors and professions.
It underscores the importance of including the end user for a more comprehensive understanding of MHP processes.
It aids in understanding, planning, and researching MHP practices, offering a clearer delineation of roles.
- The study by Hinrichsen et al, highlights the need to establish clear roles and responsibilities emphasized as crucial for the planning and implementation of successful intersectoral MHP efforts.
The need to distinguish between MHP coordinators and specialists is comparable to the need for public health specialists and practitioners.
The taxonomy guides capacity building by outlining the roles involved in MHP practices and assists in determining necessary competencies for these roles.
understanding the role of MHP practitioners is needed for their integration into existing workflows and aids in engaging frontline staff in MHP practices.
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