400732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Health Literacy
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Mental health literacy has been de ned as "knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders which aid their recognition, management or prevention. Mental health literacy has three major components: recognition, knowledge, and attitudes. A conceptual framework of mental health literacy illustrates the connections between components, and each is conceptualized as an area to target for measurement or intervention. While some researchers have focused on a single component, others have focused on multiple and/or the connection between components. For example, a researcher may focus solely on improving recognition of disorders through an education program, whereas another researcher may focus on integrating all three components into one program. Recognition can be broken down into symptom or illness recognition. Symptom recognition is the ability to detect beliefs, behaviors, and other physical manifestations of mental illness, without knowing explicitly which disorder they link to. Speci c illness recognition is the ability to identify the presentation of a disorder, such as major depressive disorder.
