About this Book

The prevalence of mental disorders, and their most dramatic extreme, suicide, is growing at an alarming rate. Even developed countries are experiencing a collapse in their general and mental health services, with care, as it has been known up to the present, becoming increasingly important. It is a problem difficult to solve at the moment. For this reason, in recent years, experiences have been developed in different countries in terms of training volunteer health promoters, coordinated by professionals, who work in different areas in terms of early detection, providing support and implementing activities that promote wellbeing. These experiences have in common the fact that they consider people not so much as patients or users, but as agents with the capacity to participate and with the need to acquire and transmit control over their health.

The aim is to showcase a collection of research articles that report results of the benefits of various actions in which the promotion of mental health becomes a concern of the individual and the community.