Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Journal of Engineering Education
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Publication Date
12-23-2022
First Page
1
Last Page
11
Abstract
“Mental Health.” Throughout the 20th century, these familiar words have been quietly commandeered by a physiological model of health (Greenspoon & Saklofske, 2001). Unknowingly, society conspired to use these words—colloquially, academically, and scientifically—for the sole purpose of depicting (or implying) negative states of the human mind. Since the origins of psychological research over 100 years ago, our understanding of what mental health is has been conflated with notions of mental illness. Resultantly, we have tacitly agreed that the presence or absence of suffering is the sole implication of our mental health (Horwitz & Scheid, 1999).
Recommended Citation
Asghar, Muhammad and Minichiello, Angela, "Two Sides to Every Psyche: Implications of Positive Psychology for "Mental Health" Research in Engineering Education" (2022). Engineering Education Student Research. Paper 10.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/ete_stures/10