Title: Psychosocial Intervention in Mental Health - Exploring your mind
Headings: Psychosocial Intervention in Mental Health
Psychosocial Intervention in Mental Health
What’s mental health?
Although people’s ability to handle day-to-day conflicts and transform their reality is of great importance, there are other decisive factors when it comes to mental health:
Psychosocial intervention in people with mental illness includes:
How Has Our Way of Treating Mental Health Problems Evolved?

Content: “What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” -Glenn Close-
What’s mental health? As Oramas, Santana, and Vergara (2013) said, mental health consists of learning about reality to then transform it through confrontation, management, and integrating conflict resolution; both internal to the individual and those surrounding them. When there’s a disturbance in this learning process, or if the individual fails in the attempt of their resolution, one can begin to talk about illness. Other authors such as Riviere said something along the same lines, that mental health is conceived as the ability to maintain dialectical and transformative relationships with the world which allow the resolution of the individual’s internal contradictions as well as those related to their social context. ( Quoted by Oramas, Santana, and Vergara. 2013). According to the World Health Organization, mental health is defined as “a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community”. Although people’s ability to handle day-to-day conflicts and transform their reality is of great importance, there are other decisive factors when it comes to mental health: