Mental Health Issues What is Mental Health

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Mental Health IssuesWhat is Mental Health?
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What is Mental Health?

• According to the Mental Health Foundation, good
  mental health is not just the absence of mental
  health problems. Individuals with good mental
• Develop emotionally, creatively, intellectually
  and spiritually
• Initiate, develop and sustain mutually satisfying
  personal relationships
• Face problems, resolve them and learn from them
• Are confident and assertive

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What is Mental health?

• Are aware of others and empathise with them
• Use and enjoy solitude
• Play and have fun
• Laugh, both at themselves and the world

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What is Mental Health?

• Mental Health affects the way we cope with
  forming and sustaining relationships. It is about
  our perception of ourselves, others, our
  environment and the world in which we live. It is
  influenced by our past experiences and our
  social, cultural and religious beliefs. The
  greater the number and variety of stressors we
  experience, and the less psychological resilience
  we have, the greater our likelihood of developing
  a mental health problem.

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What is Mental Health?

• Some of the common causes of mental health
  problems in young people include learning-
  related difficulties, exams, bullying, pressure
  to succeed, bereavement, family or friendship
  breakdown, moving house, abuse, stigmatisation,
  discrimination, absence from family or country
  and communication difficulties. Causes can also
  be related to anxieties about the future, body,
  feelings, sexuality, pregnancy or sexually
  related diseases. Stress is a main factor in
  Mental health needs

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What is Mental Health?

• The main types of Mental health Issues are
• Depression
• Anxiety related disorders
• Manic depression
• Schizophrenia

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What is Mental Health?

• According to the Mental Health Foundation, at
  some point in their lives
• 1 in 6 people will experience depression
• 1 in 10 people are likely to have a disabling
  anxiety disorder
• 1 in 100 people are likely to develop manic
  depression and/or schizophrenia
• 1 in 4 people will experience some kind of mental
  health problem in the course of a year

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What is Mental Health?

• In terms of children and young people
• 15 of pre school children will experience mental
  health problems
• 7 of pre school children will experience severe
  mental health problems
• 6 of boys and 16 of girls aged 16 19 are
  thought to have some form of mental problem
• source Statistics on Mental Health
• Mental Health Foundation
  Factsheet 2003

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What is Mental Health?

• Many mental health problems involve more than one
  mental health condition. A student may have
  Anorexia and an obsessive disorder, or a mood
  order and Paranoia. These labels must, however be
  treated with caution. They are taken from a
  medical model of mental health where the focus is
  on diagnosis and effective treatment. Education
  needs to place the emphasis on a social model
  which focuses on the illness from the point of
  view of the individual, and on the changes that
  can be made to enable the person to be included
  in that social development.

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What is Mental Health?

• Manifestations of mental health problems can
  include self harm, eating disorders, behavioural
  difficulties, suicide and attempted suicide.
  Mental health problems can affect self esteem,
  motivation, sleep patterns, communication,
  concentration, social skills and relationships
  due to their emotional and social demands. The
  effect
• Of mental health problems on a persons education
  can, clearly, be severe.