Mental health refers to the development of an individual's mental state to the best within the scope of not contradicting others' mental health physically, intellectually and emotionally. Mental health refers to a person's mental state of normal intelligence, good mood, sound will, coordinated behavior, moderate reflection, coordinated interpersonal relationship and age-appropriate psychological activities.
Experts and scholars at home and abroad have conducted in-depth research and different definitions on the concept of mental health from many angles. 1946 The Third International Conference on Mental Health defined mental health as "to develop one's mental state to the best within the range of not contradicting others' mental health physically, intellectually and emotionally. "The World Federation of Mental Health defines mental health as" the harmony of body, intelligence and emotion, adaptation to the environment, humility and happiness in interpersonal relationships, giving full play to one's ability and leading an efficient life in work and occupation ". Maslow, a humanistic psychologist, summarized mental health into ten aspects: "having a full sense of self-security;" "Be able to fully understand yourself and properly evaluate your abilities; The ideal of life is realistic and not divorced from the surrounding realistic environment; Can maintain the integrity and harmony of personality; Be good at learning from experience; Can maintain good interpersonal relationship; Can moderately vent and control emotions; On the premise of meeting the requirements of the group, the collection and arrangement of medical education network can give full play to its personality in a limited way; Under the premise of not violating social norms, individuals can properly meet their basic needs. " China scholar Wang Xiaodao and others believe that mental health has the following characteristics: "The intelligence level is within the normal range and can correctly reflect things; Psychological and behavioral characteristics are basically consistent with physiological age; Emotional stability; Actively adapt to the situation and coordinate psychology and behavior; Social adaptation, mainly psychological adaptation and interpersonal coordination; Mild behavioral response, no allergy, no dullness, corresponding to the stimulating situation; Do not deviate from the norms of social behavior, to a certain extent, can realize personal motivation and meet reasonable requirements; Self-awareness and self-reality are basically the same, and there is not much difference between' ideal me' and' real me'. "
To sum up, we can define the concept of mental health as follows: mental health in a broad sense refers to an efficient, satisfactory and sustained mental state. In this state, people can make a good response, have the vitality of life, and play their psychosomatic potential. In a narrow sense, mental health refers to a state in which people's psychological activities and social adaptation are good, and it is a process of the coordination of people's basic psychological activities, that is, the overall coordination of cognition, emotion, will, behavior and personality.