Publications: Mental health promotion

This resource provides a framework to assist organisations to develop a clearer understanding of the range of purposes of collaborations, reflect on the partnerships they have established and develop ways to strengthen new and existing partnerships.

The Melbourne Charter for Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Mental and Behavioural Disorders is the outcome of a worldwide discussion initiated by the organisers and participants of the Global Consortium for the Advancement of Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health (GCAPP) conference entitled From Margins to Mainstream: 5th World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, in Melbourne, Australia, September 2008.

The latest issue of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia has just been published and is available online at Health Promotion Journal

The focus for this issue is on mental health promotion. Guest editors are Lyn Walker, the Director of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Unit at VicHealth, Louise Rowling, from the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, New South Wales.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Summary Sheet: Burden of Disease due to mental illness and mental health problems 

VicHealth and the Victorian Department of Human Services (DHS) commissioned Deakin University to develop a mental health promotion evidence resource to fill a gap in available resources to advance policy, research and practice responses to the promotion of mental health and wellbeing.

A Report of the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse in collaboration with VicHealth and The University of Melbourne. This international book brings to life the mental health dimension of health promotion. 

This resource helps organisations promote mental health more effectively by assisting in planning and monitoring the many strategies that make a positive contribution to social, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

VicHealth’s second mental health promotion plan has been designed not only to guide VicHealth’s work in mental health promotion, but also as a resource for those across a range of sectors who are seeking to maximise opportunities to promote mental health and wellbeing in their programs, policies and practices.

In 2003 the Sydney Health Projects Group was commissioned to undertake a review of the literature pertaining to the VicHealth Mental Health Promotion Framework. The report provides a summary of the evidence reviewed and a discussion of the implications of the research for consideration by VicHealth.

This publication reports on the evaluation of eight projects funded as part of the Rural Partnerships in the Promotion of Mental Health and Wellbeing Scheme.