Qualification: NCFE CACHE Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Children and Young People’s Mental Health
Unit: Unit 01: Understand children and young people’s mental health in context
Learning outcome: 3 Understand how society views mental health
Assessment criteria: 3.2. Describe how social and cultural attitudes towards mental health have changed over time
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- Until the late 19th century mental health was stigmatised as an individual being ‘weak’ and ‘over- dramatic’ and it was not categorised at the same level of seriousness as physical health problems.
- Recently, a lot of research has been put into mental health conditions and it is slowly losing it’s stigma.
- Drug therapy and CBT have been two of the most popular solutions and support for individual’s with mental health problems.
- Many other types of therapies and drugs are being researched and created everyday in order to help individuals with mental health.
- Alongside this there are many movements promoting mental health help and is beginning to be taught in school curriculums.
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