An apprenticeship provider's wellbeing team records each trainee's position on a mental health continuum as a score from 0, representing strong wellbeing, to 10, representing significant mental health problems. The team uses the score to decide what support to offer.
| Decision | Recorded score | Other information | Team's decision |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mina and Owen each receive a score of 7. | Mina feels anxious before assessments but continues to attend training, complete daily tasks and meet friends. Owen has stopped attending training and no longer meets friends. | Both are placed in the same weekly wellbeing group without an individual discussion. |
| 2 | Nia receives a score of 2 during a week with few deadlines, when she has regular support from her family. | Four weeks later, Nia has several deadlines, her regular family support is unavailable and she reports that she is no longer coping with daily tasks. | The team offers no support because it keeps her original score and does not reassess her. |
Using your knowledge of the mental health continuum, explain why the evidence shows that relying only on the score could lead to an unsuitable support decision in decisions 1 and 2. For each decision, explain how the team should change the way it decides support.
69 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 3.1 Key Concepts, covering 3.1.1 Defining mental health and prevalence, 3.1.2 Incidence of mental health problems over time, 3.1.3 Effects of stigma and discrimination, and 3.1.4 Effects on wider society. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.