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THE EDITOR
Michael Murray is Chief Executive of The Clifford Beers
Foundation. He has acted as a member of the Experts Committee of the
European Commission, was chair of the Organising Committee for the second
World
Conference on the
Promotion of Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental Disorders, and has
sat on national and international advisory bodies.
EDITORIAL STATEMENT
The aim of the Journal is to nurture and encourage
understanding and collaboration in the field of mental health promotion
(and the prevention of mental disorders) within a truly multi-disciplinary
forum.
In this forum, researchers and practitioners from different disciplines, cultures
and countries can fruitfully collaborate to make significant progress towards
the achievement of conceptual clarity and in turn advance the development,
evaluation, dissemination and implementation of new concepts and effective
programmes.
Topics of interest for the Journal include theoretical studies, empirical and
applied original research, evaluative studies of innovative programmes, analysis
of issues fundamental to mental health promotion (and the prevention of mental
disorders) and policy making.
The editorial board aims to be eclectic and academically catholic, with no
allegiance to any specific dogma or conceptual framework or ideology.
As the definition and concept of mental health promotion continue to stimulate
extensive debate, often including discussion relating to the difference and
overlap between health promotion in general, mental health promotion, and the
prevention of mental health disorders, this lack of conceptual clarity leads
to confusion, invalid assumptions and unproductive, even futile, debate. The
sources of the controversy are diverse and stem from the different underlying
perspectives, professional roles and philosophies and beliefs of individuals
and sectional interests.
Among scientists, clinicians, practitioners, academics, policy makers and consumer
groups this discussion will continue, as much controversy exists as to the
way mental health promotion should be defined – if defined at all.
It is intended that the Journal will address these issues to promote progress
in achieving conceptual clarity as a crucial prerequisite for fruitful collaboration
in the development, dissemination and implementation of effective programmes. |
Professor Almeida-Filho Brazil
Professor Margaret Barry National University
of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Dr Jordana Bayer Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
Dr Carlos Berganza Guatemala
Professor Lynne A. Bond University of Vermont
Professor Odd Steffen Dalgard Folkehelse,
National Institute of Public Health, Norway
Professor Steve Edwards Department
of Psychology, University of Zululand, South Africa
Dr Bret Hart North Metropolitan
Health Service, Australia
Professor Clemens Hosman University
of Nijmegan, The Netherlands
Professor Moshe Israelashvili Tel Aviv
University, Israel
Dr Rachel Jenkins WHO Collaborating
Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, England
Dr Michael Killoran Ross Greater
Glasgow Health Board, Scotland
Professor Dusica Lecic-Tosevski School
of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Professor Maurice B. Mittelmark University
of Bergen, Norway |
Professor Ricardo Muñoz University
of California, San Francisco, USA
Dr John Orley The Clifford Beers
Foundation, Guernsey
Jennie Parham Auseinet, Australia
Professor Maurice B. Mittelmark University
of Bergen, Norway
Associate Professor John Raeburn University
of Auckland, New Zealand
Professor Beverly Raphael New
South Wales Health Department, Australia
Dr Colin Reed The Clifford Beers
Foundation, Stafford, England
Professor Irv Rootman University
of Toronto, Canada
Professor David Seedhouse Centre
for Health and Social Ethics, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Professor Leslie Swartz University
of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Professor John Tsiantis Athens
University Medical School, Athens, Greece
Professor Katherine Weare University
of Southampton, England
Professor Mark D. Weist Center
for School Mental Health Assistance University of Maryland, USA
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