Mental hygiene aims to promote and preserve mental health through prevention, early treatment, and cure of mental illnesses. It focuses on preventive measures like developing individuals' potential, emotional maturity, personal security, and healthy relationships. Preservative measures provide knowledge of mental disorders and therapies. Curative measures suggest rehabilitation and readjustment for maladjusted or mentally ill persons. The overall goal is to help people develop essential abilities to be socially adequate and emotionally stable individuals.

1. Mental Hygiene
S. LAKSHMANAN, M.Phil(Psy), M.A.(Psy), PGDBA., DCL.,
Psychologist (Govt. Registered)
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2. Meaning of Mental Hygiene
A Science dealing with the
preservation and promotion of
mental health as well as
prevention and treatment of
mental illness or abnormalities.

3. American Psychiatric Association
told that Mental Hygiene consists
measures to reduce the incidence of
mental illness through prevention and
early treatment and to promote mental
health

4. We can identify the three important
aspects or approaches in Mental
Hygiene, namely the preventive,
preservative and curative approach
Aims and Purpose of Mental Hygiene

5. 1. The prevention of mental disorders
through an understanding of the
relationship that exists between
wholesome personality development and
life experiences
2. The preservation of the mental health of
the individual and of the group
3. The discovery and utilization of
therapeutic measures to cure mental
illness
Aims and Purpose of Mental Hygiene

6. 1. To list various causes of maladjustment –
personal as well as social
2. To furnish the knowledge of drives, needs,
motives, conflicts of motives, frustrations and
tensions etc.
3. To suggest ways and means of achieving
emotional and social adjustment
4. To suggest the solution for the inner conflicts
and frustrations and thus relieving ourselves
from tensions, anxieties and emotional
disturbances
Preventive measure of Mental Hygiene

7. 1. Developing total potentialities of an individual
2. Attaining emotional maturity and stability
3. Achieving personal and social security as
well as adequacy
4. Developing a healthy human relationship and
group-interaction
5. Helping an individual acquire a sound body
and normal mental health.
Preservative measure of Mental Hygiene

8. 1. To furnish necessary knowledge regarding
types of mental illness, disorders and disease
2. To suggest various forms of therapy for the
treatment and curing of specific mental
illness and disordrs
3. To suggest means for the rehabilitation and
readjustment for the maladjustment, mentally
disturbed and mentally ill persons.
Curative measure of Mental Hygiene

9. Mentally healthy persons acquire
certain essential abilities and
capacities that are helpful in
developing them as socially adequate
and emotionally stable, well-balanced
personalities.

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