Supporting positive dimensions of health, challenges in mental health care

This paper will explore two contrasting paradigms in mental health care and their relationship to evidence-based practice. The biomedical perspective of pathogenesis and the health perspective of salotogenesis are two major diverse views in mental health care. Positive dimensions of health are traditionally viewed as software not suitable for statistical analysis, while absence of symptoms of disease are regarded as measurable and suitable for statistical analysis and appropriate as a foundation of evidence-based practice. If the main goal of mental health care is to enhance subjectively experienced health among patients, it will not be sufficient to evaluate absence of symptoms of disease as a measure of quality of care. The discussion focuses on the paradox of evidence-based absence of illness and disease versus subjectively experienced health and well-being as criterions of quality of care in mental health care

Victoria Quilter, on the set of Bluey, Sydney, New South Wales, ca. 1975, 3 [picture] /

Part of: Sheilas, a tribute to Australian women collection, ca. 1975.; Title devised by cataloguer based on information supplied by photographer.; Victoria was a model who became an actress in the Crawford production, Bluey.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4227542; Published in : Sheilas : a tribute to Australian women by John Larkins and Bruce Howard. Adelaide : Rigby, 1976, p.270 & 271