BTEC Level 3 Health and Social Care Unit 20 Understanding Mental Well-being Learning Aim B

This 32 page booklet was created as the BTEC Unit 20 Mental Well-being Learning Aim B is not in the book. It is covering information of the below spec and is a continuation of the Learning Aim A booklet also on TES (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/btec-level-3-health-and-social-care-unit-20-understanding-mental-well-being-learning-aim-a-11797204)
There is space for student notes and activities to help students analyse the classifications and be able to evaluate this applied to their case study.

Learning Aim B: Examine how the main forms of mental ill health are classified

B1 Recognised mental ill-health conditions and their symptoms according to current classification systems

Categories within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), e.g.:
• mood disorders
• personality disorders
• anxiety disorders
• psychotic disorders
• substance-related disorders
• eating disorders
• cognitive disorders

B2 Strengths and limitations of classification systems
• Raising awareness of mental ill health.
• Influencing the research agenda.
• Labelling and stigmatisation.
• The diagnosis of the main depressive disorders.
• Atypical presentations

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