mental health care
mental health care noun: the prevention, treatment, and management of mental illness.
Noun
mental health care (uncountable)
- The prevention, treatment, and management of mental illness.
- Yet, with the inevitable stress of their hard and monotonous lives, the separation of families as the husbands leave to find work, the tendency of some to escape with drink, and the decline in supportive traditions, the need for mental health care is very real.2005, Janet Ganguli, “Mental Health”, in Under an Indian Sky: Ten Years in a Bihar Village, New Delhi: Penguin Books India, →ISBN, part II (The Struggle for Health), page 130
- As the war in Iraq moves into its seventh year, civilian therapists are providing mental health care to our veterans.2010, Sue Grand, “Combat Speaks I: Heroic Performance and Civilian Desire”, in The Hero in the Mirror: From Fear to Fortitude (Rational Perspectives Book Series; 41), New York, N.Y.; Hove, East...
Forms of mental health care
| alternative form | mental-health care |
|---|---|
| alternative form | mental healthcare |
Origin of mental health care
Blend of mental health + health care.
Questions about mental health care
- What does mental health care mean?
- Mental health care means the prevention, treatment, and management of mental illness.
- What part of speech is mental health care?
- Mental health care is a noun.
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