Hygienist's Mental Hygiene Ideas

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Mental hygiene ideas became highly incorporated into psychiatric tactics, because of these rising ideas the mental hygiene movement was established in 1909. Mental hygienist stressed early prevention and diagnosis, because of this they started to focus on the mental health of children. They believed that early childhood experiences influence a person's mental health later in life. Mental hygienists saw that the education system was a suitable place to assert these prevention activities, so they reached out and started programs for teacher education and education reforms in general.
The Mental Hygiene Committee had many goals that they aimed to improve such as; improving the conditions of mental hospitals, stimulate research into psychiatry,

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