mental health care

See also: mental-health care and mental healthcare

English

Alternative forms

• mental-health care
• mental healthcare

Etymology

Blend of mental health +‎ health care.

Noun

mental health care (uncountable)

1. The prevention, treatment, and management of mental illness.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 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 Sussex: Routledge, →ISBN, section I (Heroes and Warriors), page 26:

     As the war in Iraq moves into its seventh year, civilian therapists are providing mental health care to our veterans.

   • 2020 October 21, Kevin L. Hoover, “Arcata City Council hopefuls navigate an unusual campaign year”, in Mad River Union, volume 8, number 5, page 9, column 1:

     “People are concerned about the unhoused, and the trash and garbage,” [Kimberley] White said. The local lack of mental health care is responsible for much of the problem, she said.

References

• “mental health care”, in Collins English Dictionary.