Mental Health

Mental Health
Mental health is a state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life,
realize their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community. It is an integral
component of health and well-being that underpins our individual and collective abilities to make
decisions, build relationships and shape the world we live in. Mental health is a basic human right.
And it is crucial to personal, community and socio-economic development.
Mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders. It exists on a complex continuum,
which is experienced differently from one person to the next, with varying degrees of difficulty and
distress and potentially very different social and clinical outcomes.
Mental health conditions include mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities as well as other
mental states associated with significant distress, impairment in functioning, or risk of self-harm.
People with mental health conditions are more likely to experience lower levels of mental well-being,
but this is not always or necessarily the case.
Find words in the text above with the following meanings:

• to sustain and support: ________________
• result, consequence: ________________
• to try to overcome, to manage: ________________
• deficiency, degradation: _________________
• potentially or probably: ________________
• succession, series: _____________________
Determinants of Mental Health
Throughout our lives, multiple individual, social and structural determinants may combine to
protect or undermine our mental health and shift our position on the mental health continuum.
Individual psychological and biological factors such as emotional skills, substance use and genetics can
make people more vulnerable to mental health problems.
Exposure to unfavorable social, economic, geopolitical and environmental circumstances – including
poverty, violence, inequality and environmental deprivation – also increases people’s risk of
experiencing mental health conditions.
Risks can manifest themselves at all stages of life, but those that occur during developmentally
sensitive periods, especially early childhood, are particularly detrimental. For example, harsh
parenting and physical punishment is known to undermine child health and bullying is a leading risk
factor for mental health conditions.
Protective factors similarly occur throughout our lives and serve to strengthen resilience. They
include our individual social and emotional skills and attributes as well as positive social interactions,
quality education, decent work, safe neighborhoods and community cohesion, among others.
Comment on the following statement:

“harsh parenting and physical punishment is known to undermine child health and bullying is a leading risk factor for mental
health conditions.”
WHO’s Response
WHO’s “World Mental Health Report: Transforming Mental Health For All” calls on all countries to
accelerate implementation of the action plan. It argues that all countries can achieve meaningful progress
towards better mental health for their populations by focusing on three “paths to transformation”:
 deepen the value given to mental health by individuals, communities and governments; and matching
that value with commitment, engagement and investment by all stakeholders, across all sectors;
 reshape the physical, social and economic characteristics of environments – in homes, schools,
workplaces and the wider community – to better protect mental health and prevent mental health
conditions; and
 strengthen mental health care so that the full spectrum of mental health needs is met through a
community-based network of accessible, affordable and quality services and supports.
 WHO gives particular emphasis to protecting and promoting human rights, empowering people with
lived experience and ensuring a multisectoral and multi-stakeholder approach.
 WHO continues to work nationally and internationally – including in humanitarian settings – to provide
governments and partners with the strategic leadership, evidence, tools and technical support to
strengthen a collective response to mental health and enable a transformation towards better mental
health for all.
Question:
Which of the above recommendations made by WHO sounds to you more feasible and liable to implement
in Morocco? Explain!

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