Mental Hygiene

Mental Hygiene

·        American Psychiatric Association: “Mental hygiene consists of measures to reduce the incidence of mental illness through prevention and early treatment and to promote mental health”.

·        Encyclopedia Britannia: “mental hygiene as the science of maintaining mental health and preventing the development of psychosis, neurosis, or other mental disorders”.

·        It is the science, which deal with

ü  The prevention of mental illness,

ü  The preservation of mental health, and

ü  The care of mental illness.

Aims and Objectives

·        Mental hygiene provides an opportunity to the individual to realize and develop his potentialities to the maximum.

·        Harmonious development of physical, mental and spiritual capacities of the individual.

·        To develop positive attitude towards life

·        It is responsible for effective existence

·        It is to prevent mental disorders or illness.

·        Preserve the mental health of the individual in group.

·        It is to discover and utilize therapeutic measure to cure mental illness.

·        Rehabilitation of mentally disturbed

·        To deal social problems

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