Promoting Mental Health in Scarce-Resource Contexts: Emerging Evidence and Practice

Exploring the potential behind mental health promotion to help people adjust to and cope with life’s challenges, this examination also highlights its importance in low to middle-income contexts where hardship is common, emphasizing how it can strengthen social and economic development. Providing a relevant conceptual and theoretical base for the application of mental health promotion in impoverished circumstances, this analysis offers examples of evidence-based programs across the lifespan applicable in these specific settings. With contributions from a range of experts in the field, this is a vital text for mental health and general public health students and practitioners as well as policymakers and planners.