How is mental illness different from poor mental health?

Poor mental health is a period of struggling that many people pass through. A mental illness is a diagnosable condition, such as depression, that meets set criteria.

How common are mental health problems in England?

Surveys find that mental health problems are common. The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2023/4 found about one in five adults in England had a common mental health condition, up from about one in six in 2014.

How does the prevalence of mental health problems differ between men and women?

Women are more likely than men to report common problems such as anxiety and depression. Men are more likely to die by suicide and less likely to seek help.

OCR GCSE Psychology J203

Criminal Psychology

Topic overview Types of crime and how crime is measured Social learning theory of crime and Cooper and Mackie's study Eysenck's criminal personality theory and Heaven's study Punishment, rehabilitation and restorative justice

Development

Topic overview Stages of development, the brain and IQ tests Structure of the brain Piaget's theory of cognitive development Piaget's conservation of number study and education Dweck's mindsets, Willingham and Blackwell's study

Psychological Problems

Topic overview Mental health, prevalence and changing attitudes Stigma, discrimination and the effects of mental health problems Schizophrenia and its explanations Clinical depression and its explanations Treatments and neuropsychology

Social Influence

Topic overview Conformity, crowds and culture Obedience and Bickman's uniform study Personality, the brain and the August riots Minority and majority influence on mental health stigma

Memory

Topic overview Information processing and the multi-store model Amnesia and the Clive Wearing case Reconstructive memory and Braun's Disney study Memory in advertising and the Wechsler Memory Scale

Sleep and Dreaming

Topic overview Sleep stages, functions and body clocks Freud's theory of dreaming and the Wolfman Activation synthesis theory and bizarre dreams Insomnia and its treatment

Research Methods

Topic overview Hypotheses, variables and experimental designs Sampling and ethical guidelines Experiments, interviews and questionnaires Observations, case studies and correlations Descriptive statistics, tables and graphs Reliability, validity and bias The five core areas of psychology

Psychological Problems

Mental health, prevalence and changing attitudes

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The mental health continuum, how common mental health problems are in England by sex, age and sexual orientation, changes in classification, and the Mental Health Act 1959.

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What is mental health?

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What is the mental health continuum?

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Why is the mental health continuum a useful way to define mental health?

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What is mental health?
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Mental health is a person's emotional, psychological and social wellbeing. Mental health affects how a person thinks, feels and copes with life.
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What is the mental health continuum?
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The mental health continuum is a scale running from good mental health, through struggling, to mental illness. A person can move along it in either direction over time.
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Why is the mental health continuum a useful way to define mental health?
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The continuum shows that mental health is not simply present or absent. Everyone has a position on it, and that position can change.
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How is mental illness different from poor mental health?
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Poor mental health is a period of struggling that many people pass through. A mental illness is a diagnosable condition, such as depression, that meets set criteria.
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How common are mental health problems in England?
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Surveys find that mental health problems are common. The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2023/4 found about one in five adults in England had a common mental health condition, up from about one in six in 2014.
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How does the prevalence of mental health problems differ between men and women?
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Women are more likely than men to report common problems such as anxiety and depression. Men are more likely to die by suicide and less likely to seek help.

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