What does mental health have to do with well-being?

Positive mental health involves not the absence of mental disorder but rather the presence of certain mental goods. Institutions, practitioners, and theorists often identify positive mental health with well-being. There are strong reasons, however, to keep the concepts of well-being and positive men...

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Published in:Bioethics
Main Author: Peng-Keller, Simon 1969- (Author)
Contributors: Dale, Lucy (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Bioethics
RelBib Classification:NCH Medical ethics
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B positive psychology
B Well-being
B Welfare
B positive mental health
B Flourishing
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Summary:Positive mental health involves not the absence of mental disorder but rather the presence of certain mental goods. Institutions, practitioners, and theorists often identify positive mental health with well-being. There are strong reasons, however, to keep the concepts of well-being and positive mental health separate. Someone with high positive mental health can have low well-being, someone with high well-being can have low positive mental health, and well-being and positive mental health sometimes conflict. But, while positive mental health and well-being are not identical, there is an informative conceptual connection between them. Positive mental health usually contributes instrumentally to the living of a good human life, where a good human life includes (but is not limited to) well-being.
ISSN:1467-8519
Reference:In Beziehung stehende Manifestation "Response to ‘What does mental health have to do with well-being?’ (2021)"
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Contains:Enthalten in: Bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12702