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The Model for Sustainable Mental Health: Future Directions for Integrating Positive Psychology Into Mental Health Care
This position paper proposes a model for systematic integration of positive psychology interventions (PPIs) in mental healthcare. On the one hand, PPIs can contribute to the decrease of dysfunctional processes underlying mental illness. This evidence is at the core of the new domains of positive cli...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8566941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34744925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.747999 |
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author | Bohlmeijer, Ernst Westerhof, Gerben |
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description | This position paper proposes a model for systematic integration of positive psychology interventions (PPIs) in mental healthcare. On the one hand, PPIs can contribute to the decrease of dysfunctional processes underlying mental illness. This evidence is at the core of the new domains of positive clinical psychology and positive psychiatry. On the other hand, a growing number of studies demonstrate that mental health is not merely the absence of mental illness. Mental wellbeing represents a related but separate dimension of mental health. Mental wellbeing reduces the risk of future incidence of mental illness and is highly valued by people receiving psychological treatment as an important aspect of personal and complete recovery and personal growth. This makes mental wellbeing a vital outcome of mental healthcare. PPIs can directly increase mental wellbeing. The model of sustainable mental health is presented integrating the science of positive psychology and mental wellbeing into mental healthcare. This heuristic model can guide both practitioners and researchers in developing, implementing, and evaluating a more balanced, both complaint- and strength-oriented, treatment approach. The role of gratitude interventions is discussed as an example of applying the model. Also, three potential modalities for implementing PPIs as positive psychotherapy in treatment are as: positive psychotherapy as primary treatment, as combinatorial treatment, and as intervention for personal recovery of people with severe or persistent mental disorder. Finally, we argue that longitudinal studies are needed to substantiate the model and the processes involved. |
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spelling | pubmed-85669412021-11-05 The Model for Sustainable Mental Health: Future Directions for Integrating Positive Psychology Into Mental Health Care Bohlmeijer, Ernst Westerhof, Gerben Front Psychol Psychology This position paper proposes a model for systematic integration of positive psychology interventions (PPIs) in mental healthcare. On the one hand, PPIs can contribute to the decrease of dysfunctional processes underlying mental illness. This evidence is at the core of the new domains of positive clinical psychology and positive psychiatry. On the other hand, a growing number of studies demonstrate that mental health is not merely the absence of mental illness. Mental wellbeing represents a related but separate dimension of mental health. Mental wellbeing reduces the risk of future incidence of mental illness and is highly valued by people receiving psychological treatment as an important aspect of personal and complete recovery and personal growth. This makes mental wellbeing a vital outcome of mental healthcare. PPIs can directly increase mental wellbeing. The model of sustainable mental health is presented integrating the science of positive psychology and mental wellbeing into mental healthcare. This heuristic model can guide both practitioners and researchers in developing, implementing, and evaluating a more balanced, both complaint- and strength-oriented, treatment approach. The role of gratitude interventions is discussed as an example of applying the model. Also, three potential modalities for implementing PPIs as positive psychotherapy in treatment are as: positive psychotherapy as primary treatment, as combinatorial treatment, and as intervention for personal recovery of people with severe or persistent mental disorder. Finally, we argue that longitudinal studies are needed to substantiate the model and the processes involved. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8566941/ /pubmed/34744925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.747999 Text en Copyright © 2021 Bohlmeijer and Westerhof. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Bohlmeijer, Ernst Westerhof, Gerben The Model for Sustainable Mental Health: Future Directions for Integrating Positive Psychology Into Mental Health Care |
title | The Model for Sustainable Mental Health: Future Directions for Integrating Positive Psychology Into Mental Health Care |
title_full | The Model for Sustainable Mental Health: Future Directions for Integrating Positive Psychology Into Mental Health Care |
title_fullStr | The Model for Sustainable Mental Health: Future Directions for Integrating Positive Psychology Into Mental Health Care |
title_full_unstemmed | The Model for Sustainable Mental Health: Future Directions for Integrating Positive Psychology Into Mental Health Care |
title_short | The Model for Sustainable Mental Health: Future Directions for Integrating Positive Psychology Into Mental Health Care |
title_sort | model for sustainable mental health: future directions for integrating positive psychology into mental health care |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8566941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34744925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.747999 |
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