After they have created their own definitions and fed back, ask them to consider the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) definition, found here:
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Is their definition different? Notice how it also includes mental health. What does it mean to be mentally healthy? Notice also how it refers to
it not simply being the ‘absence of disease’. Why do students think this might be the case?
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