Correct Answer - Option 1 : Drever
Mental Hygiene: The science of maintaining mental health and preventing the development of mental illness. Mental hygiene provides an opportunity for the individual to realize and develop his potentialities to the maximum.
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Mental Health is the condition of being sound mentally and emotionally that is characterized by the absence of mental illness and by adequate adjustment especially as reflected in feeling comfortable about oneself, positive feelings about others, and the ability to meet the demands of daily life.
- The term mental hygiene is closely related to mental health. We use the term hygiene to refer to keeping oneself and one’s living and working areas neat and clean in order to prevent illness and disease.
- When we extend this concept to the domain of mind it stands for the art of developing, maintaining, and promoting necessary behavioral, emotional, and social skills to sustain good, effective, and efficient mental health.
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James Drever was a Scottish psychologist and academic. According to him, "Mental hygiene is the investigation of laws of mental health and the taking or advocacy of measures for its prevention."
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Mental hygiene is concerned with the promotion of positive health of individuals in a community by designing and implementing programs that aim at reducing the incidence and prevalence of various mental illnesses.
Thus, it is concluded that Drever said that 'Mental hygiene means investigation of the laws of mental health and taking of measures for its preservation".
