Mental Health Rehabilitation Based on Positive Thinking Skills Training

摘要

Mental health and mental illness are often given a low priority, despite growing evidence of the burden of disease and costs to the economy. Improving mental health and reducing mental illness will improve quality of life, public health and productivity. The aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of positive thinking training (PTT) on mental ill-health among college students. For the present investigation, a battery of self-report questionnaires including positive thinking and General health questionnaires conducted on 103 college students. These students were randomly assigned to either an experimental group, or control group. Then experimental group was trained 12 sessions for positive thinking; while, control group was not trained for these training. Finally, after holding training sessions for experimental group, both groups were under pretest as a posttest. The results showed that there were significant differences between experimental and control groups on mental ill-health and positive thinking when the experimental group was under positive thinking training. Findings suggested that the education of positive thinking can decrease the mental ill-health and increase positive thinking. In primary health care there is some evidence that preventive interventions with groups at high risk of psychological diseases symptom can prevent episodes of ill-health.