Mental health promotion through the dialogue of different philosophies and professions. An interdisciplinary training in mental health

The author of this paper tries to answer the question what kind of role the Churches of Hungary can play in the improvement of mental health, and the treatment of symptoms of a crisis that have been accumulating over a long period, in Post-Communist Hungary. The paper explicates the notion of 'the promotion of mental health', and gives a detailed description of an interdisciplinary training programme aiming at the attainment of an attitude that contributes significantly to the maintenance of mental health. The purpose of this training programme is not to help people specialise in a narrow field of work, but to enrich and broaden the practice of an existing profession, that of a pastor. The programme tries to achieve this goal by means of cooperation with related fields and utilizes a wide range of experiences of adult education in general. An integral part of the programme is the integrated activity of a small group consisting of, e.g., a pastor, a doctor, a social worker, a teacher and a lawyer. The common aim is capable of reducing considerably the inherited prejudice usually generated by differences in profession, political preferences, Weltanschauung, gender, and age. The group work enables people, who are experts on their field, to accept and appreciate each other as human beings, too. That is where a 'common language' and a culture of cooperation can evolve which are vital in making different but related professions more effective in a social context than they would be in isolation. The training programme is focused on the commonly accepted value of mental health. By means of an example taken from the practice of a pastor, the paper shows the connecting and shaping force of the notion of mental health

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