Mental Health Disorder
A chronic condition including attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness
What is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
a two-fold activity that is used for keeping the body physically fit and for letting out stress.
What is exercise?
the ability to receive and interpret what people are saying
What is listening?
This professional provides academic, career, college readiness, and social/emotional support to all students
What is a school counselor?
a secondary school for ages 16–21, and prepares the students for entering the workforce
What is a vocational school?
A studying tool used to help remember important words/concepts. It can be flipped over to reveal the correct answer.
What is a flash card?
a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication
What is Autism, or Austism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
this technique uses a book and writing utensil to help a person process emotions and/or the day's events.
What is journaling?
Being able to work with others
What is team-working?
A professional qualified to assess, diagnose, and treat individuals with psychiatric disorders. (Hint: works with the psychiatrist)
What is a psychiatric/mental health nurse?
These high schools have an open admissions policy for students who have attended grade eight in the school’s feeder pattern.
What is a Neighborhood School?
To split large amounts of information into smaller, more manageable sections
What is chunking?
A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event
the process of diverting the attention away from negative situations/feelings.
What is distraction?
The ability to solve each others conflicts and disagreements
What is conflict resolution skills?
A professional who studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how individuals relate to each other and to their environments.
What is a Psychologist?
Each of these high schools has its own set of admissions criteria related to attendance, punctuality, behavior, grades, and standardized test scores.
What is Special Admission?
A list of course/class material that helps students prepare for tests.
What is a study guide?
a personality disorder characterized by excessive orderliness, perfectionism, attention to details, and a need for control in relating to others
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
a relaxation technique that does not involve any medications and is used to treat stress and anxiety. (Hint: it involves the whole body)
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
Working with others to find a mutually agreeable outcome.
What are negotiating skills?
This professional helps individuals, groups, and families prevent and cope with problems in their everyday lives. They also diagnose and treat mental, behavioral, and emotional problems.
What is a social worker?
These high schools accept students from across the city.
What is Citywide Admission?
a group of people in the same program who get together to study or work on class material.
What is a study group?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
occurs when you always or often feel that you're seeing yourself from outside your body or you sense that things around you are not real — or both
What is De-Realization or De-Personalization Disorder?
the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions
What is emotional inteligence?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Awareness of the feelings and emotions of other people
What is empathy?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
A professional who works with people to help them to be better able to participate in everyday life, by helping people to enhance their own abilities, and by modifying the external environment.
What is an occupational therapist?
a military-themed character development program offered to help high school students develop their capacity for citizenship, leadership, character building and service to the community.
What is JROTC?
A diagram used to visually organize information into a hierarchy, showing relationships among pieces of the whole. (Hint: a "map")
What is a mind map?