Journal of Public Mental Health: Volume 2 Issue 3

Editorial

Michael Murray

Early Mental Health Promotion in Children Through Primary Health Care Services: A Multi‐Centre Implementation

John Tsiantis, Marjorie Smith, Thalia Dragonas, Antony Cox

The paper presents results from the implementation and evaluation of a EU/WHO multi‐centre programme on the promotion of children's psychosocial development through primary health…

Multi‐agency Work in Practice: The Evaluation of a Primary Care‐based Mental Health Promotion Project

Hazel Watson

This article reports the evaluation of the Choices Project, an initiative which was developed to address health inequalities and was piloted in a medical centre in an area of…

Needs and Resources Assessment: Establishing a Baseline of Expectation in Delivering Emotional Support to Schools

Joan Baxter

The promotion of mental health in the school context is gaining impetus with the introduction of the Healthy School Standard and other government‐sponsored initiatives. The Place…

Measuring Social Capital at the Individual Level: Personal Social Capital, Values and Psychological Distress.

Helen Berry, Debra Rickwood

It is proposed that social capital, a societal‐level construct, can be measured at the individual level. This ‘personal social capital’ is a psychological construct defined as a…