Category: Health and Mental Health

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): A Powerful Contextual Approach to Promoting Youth Mental Health in Schools Young people spend much of their lives at school, and school has many significant impacts on their well-being and mental health. Schools are educational institutions with the primary aim of providing a formal learning environment and space to stu-dents…

A lifetime history of suicide attempt predisposes the individual to future suicide attempts and, eventually, death by suicide. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in the development and implementation of various effective interventions in populations with a recent suicide attempt. Evidence-based interventions in attempted suicide can be grouped under pharmacological treatments, psychosocial interven-tions, brief…

Prevention of mental disorders implies preventing their occurrence in non-affected individuals or reducing relapse frequency, symptom burden, and overall impact in affected patients and their families. This popular concept had its early moorings in the mental hygiene movement, called so because of its similarities with other hygienic practices that seek to establish a set of…

Mental health is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as not the mere absence of a mental health condition, but a state of well-being that allows individu-als to realize their full potential, demonstrate resilience in the face of adversity, be productive, make meaningful relationships, and contribute to their communities (World Health Organization, 2004). Of…

By now, it should be the case that most readers will be eager for a reminder that mattering is double edged and mattering is an exceptional positive resource. While much of the focus in this chapter has been on feelings of not mattering and how they relate to the will to die, positive feelings of…

The frustrated needs linked with feelings of not mattering include the need for con-nection with other people (see Flett et al., 2022). The link between feelings of not mattering and loneliness has documented in several studies (e.g., Flett et al., 2022; McComb et al., 2020), and we have emphasized the double jeopardy that exists when…

Without question, the largest void when considering the role of mattering in suicide is at the explanatory level. Why and how do feelings of not mattering come to play a role in suicide? These questions are considered in the next segment of this chapter in an attempt to address the current void in the published…

Mattering is unique in terms of psychological constructs because it is, in essence, a part of the self that is based on reflected appraisals of the self (i.e., our perceptions of how much other people regard us). Also, it is rooted in interpersonal relation-ships, so it is very much as social-cognitive construct. Rosenberg and McCullough…

Mattering and Feelings of Not Mattering in Suicide Risk and Prevention: Conceptualization, Review, and Public Health Recommendations The theme “You Matter” is arguably one of the most important public health mes-sages in existence when it comes to understanding and preventing mental health problems. The national suicide prevention program in the United States focused on youth…

Besides the innate qualities described in the “5-C” model (Martin & Marsh, 2006), academic resilience may also be influenced by external factors such as social sup-port within the individuals’ social environment (Permatasari et al., 2021). For exam-ple, positive social support from friends has been shown to act as a buffer for students under stress (Wilks…