Mental Health
Conditions that affect a person's thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions deeply impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.
What is a mental health condition?
True or False: Medication and therapy are the most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges.
What is true?
This is the most common mental health condition that impacts American adults.
What is anxiety disorder?
An individual who experiences periods of depression (increased sleep, increased appetite, isolation, low mood) followed by periods of elevated mood, impulsive behavior, irritability and increased goal-oriented activity may be experiencing this mental health condition.
What is bipolar disorder?
This coping skill involves documenting daily thoughts, feelings, emotions or reflections in a notebook or digitally on a phone or computer.
What is journaling?
This is a common and serious psychiatric diagnosis that impacts mood, motivation and energy levels.
What is depression?
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
What is false?
True or False: A psychologist can prescribe psychiatric medication in NJ.
What is false?
An individual who experiences intrusive, distressing thoughts and attempts to suppress or neutralize the thoughts with another thought or behavioral action may be experiencing this mental health condition.
True or False: All medication works the same for everyone.
What is false?
A symptom of depression is a persistently ____ mood.
What is low and/or depressed mood?
Acknowledging positive things, even when things feel generally negative, is known as expressing ______.
What is gratitude?
The acronym "APH" stands for this psychiatric level of care.
What is a acute partial hospitalization?
An individual using alcohol daily, requiring continued use to avoid withdrawal symptoms, decreased tolerance and interference with daily functioning may be experiencing this mental health condition.
What is alcohol use disorder?
What does the acronym HALT stand for?
What is hungry, angry, lonely, tired?
Impulsively buying things on Amazon and staying up for days is commonly associated with this fluctuation in mood.
What is Mania?
_________ alters the levels and activity of neurotransmitters, the brain's chemical messengers, to assist in alleviation of psychiatric symptoms.
What is meditation?
This communication style is the gold standard - it allows us to make our needs known in addition to being aware of the needs of others.
What is assertive communication?
An individual experiencing anxiety about leaving their home in fear of potential embarrassment, resulting in their perceived inability to leave their home may be experiencing this mental health condition.
What is agoraphobia?
A skill that helps an individual identify what may be reality and what may be a delusion or hallucination.
What is reality testing?
A sudden, overpowering feeling of worry that may cause breathing difficulty, trembling and sweating?
What is a Panic Attack?
This is a simple technique that is excellent for managing emotions, specifically anxiety. Not only is it effective, but is also discreet and easy to use at any time and any place.
What is deep breathing?
A chronic, treatable medical disease characterized by the compulsive use of a substance or engagement in a behavior despite severe negative consequences. It fundamentally alters the brain’s reward and self-control circuits, making it difficult to stop.
What is addiction?
Individuals who have lived through or witnessed a traumatic event and are experiencing flashbacks, nightmares and exaggerated startle response may be experiencing this mental health condition.
What is PTSD?
Approximately ____% of American adults aged 18 or older have a diagnosed mental health condition.
What is 23% to 26%?
A deliberate act that one does when feeling a negative emotions (such as anxious, depressed or frustrated) that aims to neutralize the feeling?
What are coping skills?
A DBT skills known as "The Wise Mind" suggests that our brain operates on both _____ and _____.
An initial assessment with a licensed counselor or social worker in which you discuss mental health history, symptoms, medications and social factors?
What is an intake assessment?
An individual who is experiencing the urge to pull out their hair and has difficulty stopping this behavior despite causing significant stress may be experiencing this mental health condition.
What is trichotillomania?
What does SSRI, the most commonly prescribed medication for depression, stand for?
What is Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors?