benevolence, social restrictiveness and concept of community mental health. The mental health education was provided with the subject of the concept of mental illness, causes and types of mental illness, characteristics of behaviour, treatment, prognosis, prevention etc. for 50 minutes for two times each class. Findings of the study demonstrate as follows
A significant difference between two groups were shown in :3 factors among 4 in a test carried out after an education on mental illness. That is, the experimental group who was educated on mental illness shows lower points in authoritarianism(t=4.81, p=.01) and social restrictiveness (t=5.25, p=.01) and higher points in concept of community mental health(t=7.50, p =.01) than that of comparative group. There is no significant difference in the points of benevolence, by the way. As it is shown above, the mental illness education for high school students can change the attitudes towards mental illness. Their attitudes on mental illness was quite positive and favorable after having an education. This shows that, in order to change the attitudes toward mental illness, a systematic and specified on-going preventive education on mental illness reponding to the needs of adolescent is necessary.
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