This report prepared by the National Advisory Board on Social Welfare and Health Care Ethics ETENE is intended for ordinary citizens, for social welfare and health care professionals, and for political elected officials and decision-makers. The purpose of this report is to safeguard the rights of mental health patients and clients and their families, to help them participate in society and to improve their status. ETENE is thus contributing to a public debate about the values on which mental health promotion is based, about the requirements for the users of those services to lead a life of human dignity, about the right to self-determination and about equal and human treatment. We hope that this report will contribute to a discussion of what is sound mental health promotion.