DSM, tool used by doctors, diagnostic statistic manual (every year they re-new it)
Jahoda’s Positive Mental Health Jahoda looked into what it is to be normal, rather than looking at what is abnormal, showing a positive concept. A person is only abnormal if their behaviour doesn’t meet the ‘normal’ criteria. Jahoda argues that positive mental health is:
Positive attitude towards yourself
Growth, development and self-actualisation, humanistic concept
Integration, active part of a community
Autonomy, self-determination and being able to make decisions for yourself
Accurate perception of reality
Environmental mastery
A strength of this concept is that it is a more positive way of looking at mental health as it looks firstly at the normal, then the abnormal behaviour. A weakness is that some concepts of this are difficult to measure; there is no scale for measuring self-actualisation or autonomy.