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Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health

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The University of Sydney

Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health

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In today’s world, mental illness and distress are common and these account for a significant burden of disability within our community. At the same time, there is a growing interest in understanding and enhancing positive mental health and wellbeing; particularly from developments in the fields of positive psychology and mental health promotion. Positive Psychiatry is a new term (Jeste et al 2016) that describes a dual approach to mental health, where we build strengths, supports and healthy lifestyles as well as treating illness and distress. In this course, we will explore different aspects of good mental health as well as provide an overview of the major kinds of mental disorders, their causes, treatments and how to seek help and support. The course will feature a large number of Australian experts in psychiatry, psychology and mental health research, and we will also hear from “lived experience experts”, people who have lived with mental illness, and share their personal stories of recovery. We take an evidence-based approach to a range of strategies that anyone can use to enhance their own mental health and that of others, from exercise and relaxation techniques through to the role of love, relationships and 'good' types of work. We cover topics from creativity and yoga through to psychiatric medications and psychotherapies.

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Module 3 - Love and Work

Mental health has sometimes been described simply as the capacity to love and to work. Psychiatry still uses similar concepts today. In this module, we talk about love and work, and introduce the complementary ideas of rest and play. We hear about attachment theory, social connections and the ancient wisdom of Australian Aboriginal views on wellbeing. We discuss the importance of contributing and here you find out whether or not work is good for you.

Families and carers10:43

Aboriginal Australians: social and emotional wellbeing7:46

Social and economic participation3:22

The YES Project11:58

Consumer communities7:37

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Sonia Kumar
Psychiatry Course Coordinator
Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney

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Now when people develop mental health problems, the big impact is actually on

their social and economic participation, dropping out of school, dropping out of

employment, not being out and an effective part of a community on an ongoing basis.

So the big disability costs associated with mental health problems in

young people, and associated with aging,

are the extent to which people drop out of school, employments, their families.

So when you're really well, you're a big participator.

You're in there, you're employed, you're active,

you're a big member of your community, productive member of your family.

If you develop mental health problems, you tend to progressively fall out of that and

have the costs associated with it.

So whenever we talk about mental health, we'll talk about anxiety, we'll talk about

depression, we'll talk about symptoms, we'll talk about all the experiences.

But really, at the end of the day, can you live a productive life, or

does the development of mental health problems interfere with

living that productive life?

A very important concept to emerge in mental health some years ago, courtesy of

the British, was a concept of mental wealth, the mental wealth of a nation.

A country's really wealthy economically, socially, and

in fact in terms of these days, security and its functioning,

when it has high mental wealth, when the members of that community are operating at

their best in terms of their cognitive function, their everyday behavior.

Now, like all economic concepts, you then think well,

how do you build mental wealth?

How is it over the course of one's life that one builds the highest degree

of mental health that you could, or in other term, mental capital?

Truth is, it takes a very long time,

like minus nine months to about 22 years to build, for each individual,

their best intellectual, cognitive, emotional, behavioral capacity.

Then you gotta maintain that from 22 years right through aging,

certainly into your 70s and 80s, to maintain your mental wealth.

And contribute and return to society the investment that they've made to you

through health and education from minus nine months to 22 years.

This is a big economic social concept, and one that's driving a lot of investment

worldwide now, and a lot of interest in governments.

Particularly for developed countries, where we no longer manufacture things,

and we no longer talk about simply the workforce as something that goes and

produces something, being smarter in our heads, and

having the best actual cognitive and behavioral capacities to be very

productive over a very long life, is a big economic concept, and

one that we are importing very much into our health and education systems.

So it becomes the mental wealth of a nation, not just its mental health.

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