Volume : 8, Issue : 3, March - 2019

Mental Health First Aid For People In Crisis: A Literature Review

Mr. Prakash Makasare

Abstract :

Mental health had been a neglected dimension of health world-wide. In India, this dimension did not have much appraisal for the reason being strong family system with joint families providing support to the weaker in the family. In times of crisis the aid was available right beside the person in those conditions. However, with urbanization the nuclear family system flourished and severed the support system. This demanded the provision of mental health first aid. The main objective of this paper is to reviews the status of mental health first aid in the world and in India and also to provide for strategies required for enhancing mental health first aid.