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Mental health promotion and related concepts:

Mental health promotion vs. generic health promotion

• similar principles and processes
• different outcomes – explicitly mental-health related, such as increased sense of personal control, empowerment, self-determination and resilience

Mental health promotion vs. prevention

• aimed at “at-risk” population rather than general population
• mental health promotion serves the population at large, and seeks to bring about mental health rather than preventing specific mental illnesses