Mental Health Literacy in Canada: Phase One Report Mental Health Literacy Project

This figure shows the process involved in the model for enhancing mental health literacy:

Increasing Empowerment

Basic/Functional Literacy:
Ability to read and write and process basic mental health information.
Communicative/Interactive Literacy:
Ability to extract information and derive meaning from different forms of communication and apply new information to changing circumstances: Individual action.
Improved Individual Mental Health Outcomes
Critical Literacy:
Ability to critically analyze information and to use it to exert greater control over life events and situations: Action on social and economic determinants of mental health.
Improved Population Mental Health Outcomes.