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Social inclusion: a primary mental health perspective
- Author:
- CODYRE David
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, 5(2 Supplement), July 2009, pp.46-50.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author highlights how an improved primary mental health care service can offer much promise for maintaining and improving people's social inclusion. Improving the ability of primary care to identify early and effectively meet mental health needs could indirectly serve to maintain people's social inclusion. Access to programmes providing interventions such as cognitive behaviour therapy and employment support may even increase the social inclusion of people who develop a common mental health condition. However, the real promise for the future is whether primary care can orient itself to local level mental health promotion, champion community development-informed projects to directly impact on and improve communitywide social inclusion, and thus improve community/population mental health.