Start Date
18-10-2025 9:00 AM
End Date
18-10-2025 9:30 AM
Location
MH358
Submission Type
Abstract
Track
Family Business and Social Sciences
Abstract
This presentation will be 1. challenge the current medical model’s definition of mental illness, 2. will offer a theoretically sound strengths based alternative to current day psychiatric labels, 3. will delve into the cultural, economic, social, historical and ideological corollaries that can be seminally linked with the meteoric rise in mental health diagnoses in America, 4. will examine the ways in which self- perception can influence relationships and work place performance, and 5. will explore in depth how employing the strengths model can significantly increase happiness, self- efficacy and productivity in a variety of public and private spheres.
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Transcending Mental Health Boundaries: A Return to the Strengths Based Model
MH358
This presentation will be 1. challenge the current medical model’s definition of mental illness, 2. will offer a theoretically sound strengths based alternative to current day psychiatric labels, 3. will delve into the cultural, economic, social, historical and ideological corollaries that can be seminally linked with the meteoric rise in mental health diagnoses in America, 4. will examine the ways in which self- perception can influence relationships and work place performance, and 5. will explore in depth how employing the strengths model can significantly increase happiness, self- efficacy and productivity in a variety of public and private spheres.
