Rural Mental Health Ecology: A Framework for Engaging with Mental Health Social Capital in Rural Communities

Title
Rural Mental Health Ecology: A Framework for Engaging with Mental Health Social Capital in Rural Communities
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Wilson, Rhonda L
Wilson, Glenn
Usher, Kim
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9686-5003
Email: kusher@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:kusher
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Springer New York LLC
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1007/s10393-015-1037-0
UNE publication id
une:18267
Abstract
The mental health of people in rural communities is influenced by the robustness of the mental health ecosystem within each community. Theoretical approaches such as social ecology and social capital are useful when applied to the practical context of promoting environmental conditions which maximise mental health helping capital to enhance resilience and reduce vulnerably as a buffer for mental illness. This paper explores the ecological conditions that affect the mental health and illness of people in rural communities. It proposes a new mental health social ecology framework that makes full use of the locally available unique social capital that is sufficiently flexible to facilitate mental health helping capital best suited to mental health service delivery for rural people in an Australian context.
Link
Citation
EcoHealth, 12(3), p. 412-420
ISSN
1612-9210
1612-9202
Start page
412
End page
420

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