IMPROVING MENTAL HEALTH IN LEARNERS AS AN AIM IN EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

Different cultures have different notions about mental health. There are many aspects of life which mould personality and behaviour. Much mental health disorder is related to cultural confusion and uncertainty. What should be accepted as a healthy mind must be something which many rational people would wish to possess such as freedom from unreasonable anxiety; control of hostility and violence. People tend to use mental health, emotional stability, autonomy and personal development to cover any kind of increase in cognitive awareness. A mentally healthy child is one that makes steady improvement in both intellectual and social skills. The aim of this paper is to attempt to identify conditions that indicate a healthy mental state including conditions that show disorder of mental health. The paper 'will discuss conditions that are related to mental health and point out those conditions that car. act, tally be associated with disorders of mental health arguing against those that cannot be associated with disorders of mental health. In other words, the paper will identify conditions of a healthy mind; indices of mental disorder; conditions that can be controlled through education; conditions that are the area of therapy; how therapeutic conditions should, be handled and how to handle educationally related conditions. Teaching is not the same as curing, if any process clears a person’ false beliefs and malfunction, the process is therapy. Teaching a person with the result that he becomes more aware and has a fuller life, is educational