Parenting Parenting may affect the child's mental health, and evidence suggests that helping parents to be more effective with their children can address mental health needs. Assessing parenting capability has been raised in child protection and other contexts. Delaying of potential very young pregnancies could lead to better mental health causal risk factors such as improved parenting skills and more stable homes, and various approaches have been used to encourage such behaviour change. Some countries run conditional cash transfer welfare programs where payment is conditional on behaviour of the recipients. Compulsory contraception has been used to prevent future mental illness. Pre-emptive CBT Use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with people at risk has significantly reduced the number of episodes of generalized anxiety disorder and other anxiety symptoms, and also given significant improvements in explanatory style, hopelessness, and dysfunctional attitudes. In 2014 the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommended preventive CBT for people at risk of psychosis. As of 2018, some health providers now advocate pre-emptive use of CBT to prevent worsening of mental illnesses. Mental silence meditation Sahaja meditators scored above control groups for emotional well-being and mental health measures on SF-36 ratings, leading to proposed use for mental illness<unk> , although this result could be due to meditators having other characteristics leading to good mental health, such as higher general self care. Internet- and mobile-based interventions A review found that a number of studies have shown that internet- and mobile-based interventions can be effective in<unk> g mental disorders.
Prevention of mental disorders
Treatment of mental disorders
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Prevention of dementia
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