The Application of Salutogenesis in Mental Healthcare Settings

Eva Langeland, Hege Forbech Vinje, Maurice B. Mittelmark, Shifra Sagy, Monica Eriksson, Georg F. Bauer, Jürgen M. Pelikan, Bengt Lindström, Geir Arild Espnes, Eva Langeland, Hege Forbech Vinje, Maurice B. Mittelmark, Shifra Sagy, Monica Eriksson, Georg F. Bauer, Jürgen M. Pelikan, Bengt Lindström, Geir Arild Espnes

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Research shows that sense of coherence is especially related to mental health. Thus, the relevance of applying salutogenesis in clinical settings is obvious. At the individual level, the professional healthcare worker aspires to be an expert and to create a conversational and interactional climate that will promote desirable change for, and in, the recipient of the mental healthcare service. This chapter emphasizes high quality social support in interplay with positive identity development as crucial resistance resources in a salutogenic approach in mental healthcare settings. Social support and identity are relevant in any discussion of group therapy, and a salutogenic orientation gives explicit attention to their interplay as resistance resources. While intervention research is still quite limited, some experimental evidence is presented in this chapter that indicates both the feasibility and the effectiveness of taking a salutogenic orientation into the mental health therapy setting.

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