3.5.Describe how discrimination can affect the mental health of children and young people

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: 3.5. Describe how discrimination can affect the mental health of children and young people

• Children with mental health disorders often feel isolated and unable to speak up in fear they will be judged.
• This fear often prevents children from seeking the support and help they need which as a result can worsen their mental health further.
• Mental health is not spoken and learned about within schools as much as it should be which often leads children without mental health disorders to discriminate against those who do have mental health problems because they are uneducated.