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mental health  

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  • Mental health was once defined as the psychological state that exists in the absence of mental illness. Contemporary social scientific thought, however, has abandoned the view that mental health and mental illness are antithetical to one another. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Mental Health]

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