Jahoda's 6 Criteria for Ideal Mental Health..

Hi all,

would anyone please be so kind as to list wat jahoda's 6 criteria for ideal mental health are? cant seem to find it anywhere in my notes...

cheers :smile:

Reply 1

NSW

I can't remember, but this is what i found through google, so dunno how correct it is.

the six criteria of "the mentally healthy individual" proposed by Dr. Marie Jahoda in her monograph, Current Concepts of Positive Mental Healtb:

1. He is self-reliant, self-confident and self-accepting.
2. His degree of self-actualization is such that his motivational processes can be characterized as growth motivation rather than need motivation.
3. He can resist stress, has a unifying outlook on life, and his psychic forces are in flexible balance; that is, he shows a relatively good integration of the personality.
4. He is autonomous (rather than, in Riesman's terms, either "adjusted" on the one hand or "anomic" on the other). He maintains a stable set of internal standards for his actions, so that he is relatively independent of social influences.
5. He is able to perceive the world and other persons with relative freedom from the distortions that may originate in his own needs. Related to this perception of reality is empathy, or social sensitivity, by virtue of which he will treat the inner life of others as a matter worthy of his concern.
6. He is adapted to his environment, displaying a creative capacity for love, work, and play. (3, P. 5. Used by permission.)

Reply 2

maffsman

1. Self attitudes - high self-esteem and a strong sense of identity
2. Personal growth - the extent to which an invidual grows, develops, and becomes self-actualised affects their mental health
3. Integration - how the above two concept sare integrated, which can be assessed by how an individual will cope with a stressful situation
4. Autonomy - the degree to which a person is independant of social influences and able to regulate himself or herself
5. Perception of reality - being free from the need to distort one's own perception of reality and demonstrating empathy and social sensitivity
6. Environmental mastery - the extent to which an individual is successful and well adapted