Question

What is the two major problems for formulation of general principles of mental hygiene?

Answer 1

Answer:

After having fair ideas on educational psychology, psychology of growth and development, various stages of development, memory and forgetting, learning and personality in the previous units, now we are going to discuss one of the important aspects of psychology that is mental health and hygiene. Mental health and hygiene is the two sides of a coin. Hygiene is the pre-requisite condition for maintaining good and sound health. Besides these, this unit also deals with the various mechanisms of adjustment. In fact, adjustments mechanisms are the instrument for maintaining the balanced personality as well as the instrument to rescue from the various mal-adjusted behaviours and problems.