Mental Health Awareness

3 Hours

  • Describe the main types of mental ill health according to the psychiatric (DSM/ICD) classification system: mood disorders, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, substance-related disorders, eating disorders, cognitive disorders
  • Explain the key strengths and limitations of the psychiatric classification system
  • Describe two alternative frameworks for understanding mental distress
  • Recognise how mental ill health may be indicated through an individual’s emotions, thinking and behaviour
  • Explain how individuals experience discrimination due to misinformation, assumptions and stereotypes about mental ill health
  • Explain how mental ill health may have an impact on the individual including:

a) psychological and emotional
b) practical and financial
c) the impact of using services
d) social exclusion
e) positive impacts

  • Explain how mental ill health may have an impact on those in the individual’s familial, social or work network including:

a) psychological and emotional
b) practical and financial
c) the impact of using services
d) social exclusion
e) positive impacts

  • Explain the benefits of early intervention in promoting an individual’s mental health and well-being
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