Mental Health & Functioning

• Mental health is influenced by a wide variety of internal and external factors throughout our lifespan that can fluctuate over time.
• Internal factors:

  Influences that originate inside or within a person. These can be organised as biological and psychological factors.
• Internal factors: biological


  Involve physiologically based or determined influences, often not under our control.
• Internal factors: psychological


  Involve all those influences associated with mental processes.
• identify the types of factors:

  A) psychological

  B) biological

  C) social

  
• Functioning:

  The term functioning generally refers to how well an individual independently performs or operates in their environment.