RMH TRAINING

A picture where you can write and draw your map of significant social relations (persons/social groups/political and other actors)

1. What makes social life meaningful for you?

2. What aspects of promoting and empowering mental health do you find in these relations?

To read and learn more:

Eriksson, Malin; Ghazinour, Mehdi & Hammarström, Anne

Different uses of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory in public mental health research: what is their value for guiding public mental health policy and practice?

Social Theory & Health 2018-03-14, Vol.16 (4), pp. 414-433.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41285-018-0065-6

Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory is appealing as a conceptual tool for guiding public mental health interventions. However, his theory underwent significant changes since its first inception during the late 1970s until his death in 2005, due to which the implications that can be drawn might differ depending on what concepts (i.e. early or later) of the theory is utilized. The aim of this paper was to examine how different concepts of Bronfenbrenner’s theory have been utilized in (public) mental health research, and to analyse the value of these different uses for guiding public mental health policy and practice. A systematic search for articles that have utilized concepts of Bronfenbrenner’s theory within the field of mental health resulted in a review of 16 published papers. Our results show that studies using Bronfenbrenner’s ecological system concepts by clearly considering interactions between and within these systems can result in recommendations that are most useful for guiding public mental health policy and practice.