Read the following information.
Amara has moved to a new city for work. She sees many people every day on the bus and in her office, but she has nobody she could phone late at night, and nobody would notice if she stopped replying to messages for a week.
Explain why Amara could be described as isolated, and how this could make a mental health problem more likely.
103 exam-style questions on Oxford AQA IGCSE Psychology 2.3 Mental health, covering 2.3.1 Incidence of mental health problems over time, 2.3.2 Characteristics of mental health, 2.3.3 Cultural variations in beliefs, 2.3.4 Challenges of modern living, 2.3.5 Recognition and social stigma, 2.3.6 Individual effects of mental health problems, 2.3.7 Social effects of mental health problems, 2.3.8 Diagnosing OCD, 2.3.9 Explanations of OCD, 2.3.10 Therapy for OCD, 2.3.11 Kearns's CBT study, 2.3.12 Diagnosing PTSD, 2.3.13 Explanations of PTSD, 2.3.14 Therapy for PTSD, and 2.3.15 Eftekhari's exposure therapy study. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.