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Positive Mental Health & Mental Distress Among At-Risk Women Post-Partum:

Positive Mental Health & Mental Distress Among At-Risk Women Post-Partum: Results from the Towards Flourishing Project. Mariette Chartier PhD, Jennifer Volk PhD, Marion Cooper RSW, Farzana Quddus MA, Julie-Anne McCarthy MA and the Towards Flourishing Team.

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Positive Mental Health & Mental Distress Among At-Risk Women Post-Partum:

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  1. Positive Mental Health & Mental Distress Among At-Risk Women Post-Partum: Results from the Towards Flourishing Project Mariette Chartier PhD, Jennifer Volk PhD, Marion Cooper RSW, Farzana Quddus MA, Julie-Anne McCarthy MA and the Towards Flourishing Team

  2. Keyes Dual Continua Model :Positive Mental Health and Mental Illness Keyes, C.L. The mental health continuum: from languishing to flourishing in life. J Health Soc Behav; 2000, 43(2):207-222.

  3. Half of women scored high on positive mental health

  4. Mental Distress (%)

  5. Relationship between % Positive Mental Health and % Mental Distress *

  6. Policy and Practice Implications • Encouraging women to be attentive to mental well-being may prevent mental distress • Broaching mental health by focusing on positive aspects is more feasible • Less stigma associated with well-being than mental distress and illness • Provide strategies for women to promote mental health • Build community capacity to support women in post-partum period

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