The Association for Behavioral Health promotes French American cross-cultural professional provider collaboration to help ensure high-quality, community-based care for individuals and families living with mental disorders and behavioral health issues.
Core Value
Sharing of best practices to promote quality peer-to-peer professional learning to ensure person-centered and outcome-oriented care that is clinically and cost effective.
What Makes Association for Behavioral Health unique
The Association for Behavioral Health promotes French American cross-cultural professional provider collaboration to help ensure high-quality, community-based care for individuals and families living with mental disorders and behavioral health issues
Definitions
Mental health; as defined by the World Health Organization, is “a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.” Mental health encompasses a number of factors, such as biology, psychological condition, and habits.
Behavioral health; on the other hand, examines how habits impact overall physical and mental wellbeing. Behavioral Health supports and encourages healthy behaviors such as eating, regular exercise, sufficient sleep and a positive mindset. In contrast, behavioral health disorders result from maladaptive behaviors that negatively impact physical or mental conditions. Examples of behavioral health disorders include, substance abuse, eating disorders, sex addiction, gambling. Recovering from a behavioral disorder or mental a mental health issue requires commitment, and support.
Behavioral medicine; as a specialty, is focused on the recipocal relationship between the overall well-being of a person and human behavior. It promotes a philosophy in which each individual is responsible for initiating activities in many different areas of health.