Happiness and Mental Health: The Flip Side of S-AD

Anwar-McHenry, J.; Donovan, Robert; Egger, G.

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-810401-9.00016-4

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Anwar-McHenry, J.

Donovan, Robert

Egger, G.

Date

2017

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Anwar-McHenry, J. and Donovan, R. and Egger, G. 2017. Happiness and Mental Health: The Flip Side of S-AD. In Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease: Third Edition, 263-281.

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Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease: Third Edition

DOI

10.1016/B978-0-12-810401-9.00016-4

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9780128104262

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Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65655

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

© 2017 Michael Sagner. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The "Happiness" movement sprang up in the 1980s as a response to the negativity of much depression research. This came largely from the early work of Dr. George Vaillant and the longitudinal study of Harvard alumni, and that of Drs. Martin Selligman and Mihalyi Csikzentmihalyi in positive psychology. In Australia the Act-Belong-Commit program, a major public health mental health promotion campaign, offers the first comprehensive, evidence-based mental health promotion lifestyle intervention for adoption in clinical practice.