Prevention for adults with mental health problems
With one in four adults experiencing mental health problems at some point in their lives, there really is ‘no health without mental health’. Prevention in mental health focuses on building and maintaining wellbeing on both an individual and community basis.
Government strategies including No Health without Mental Health (2011) and the Five Year Forward View highlight key aspects to improve commissioning and individual engagement with support services including:
- provision of information; support for self-management of conditions
- partnerships with communities, the voluntary sector and with carers and families of people using services
- support for people to gain and stay in work and personalisation: ensuring that services meet people’s self-defined goals
Making choices, being informed
Promoting independence and wellbeing
- Getting it right together. Mental health and wellbeing for people living with mental distress. SCIE Featured Article
- Mental health, employment and the social care workforce. At a glance 48
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- Mental Health Prevention & Personalisation Service
