Promoting mental health

Reading this chapter will help you to: •understand the reasons for the need to equally emphasise prevention, treatment and promotion in mental health work •understand how knowledge of developmental stages assists in shaping interventions that serve to promote mental health in young people and their families •identify the range of mental health strategies clinicians use within the spectrum of interventions for mental disorders •describe day-to-day practice activities useful in promoting a young person’s mental health and wellbeing, and helping young people to flourish •discuss issues important to organisational planning so that services in which you work can build their capacity to provide youth-centred care.