Promoting mental health and wellbeing in practice

Using a structured model to promote mental health

“…A Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being Working Model (Keeling and McQuarrie, 2014) was developed in response to recognition through teaching undergraduate nursing students, that interventions aimed at enhancing mental health and wellbeing are often hidden (Owens et al, 2010) or cloaked in traditional professional specific working interventions. The model was developed with the purpose of making the elements of mental health and well-being promotion visible and structuring them into a framework to aid working practice and personal development.…”

“…The model was developed with the purpose of making the elements of mental health and well-being promotion visible and structuring them into a framework to aid working practice and personal development. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness from the participant perspective of using the model to enhance clients' mental health and well-being in community settings (Keeling and McQuarrie, 2014). Design/methodology/approach -A total of 14 participants were interviewed within two focus groups.…”

“…It is also acknowledged that mental health and well-being promotion may have very little obvious relationship to a diagnosis or presenting medical problem (Hermann, Saxena and Moodie, 2005). The model was designed on the initial premise that improved mental health and well-being may have a secondary effect of improving the presenting medical problem or health concern thus "flipping" the focus of caring activity to be person centred in its truest form (Cornwall et al, 2003;Keeling and McQuarrie, 2014).…”