Diagnosis/Disorders
People with this diagnosis may be characterized by a loss of interest or pleasure, weight change, fatigue, and/or sleep disturbances.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
These medications are often prescribed to manage depression and anxiety.
What are antidepressants?
True or False: Mental health issues only affect people 18+.
False
Name a job that is related to the mental health field.
One example- Therapist
Engaging in what for at least 30 minutes a day can boost mental health.
What is Exercise?
People with this diagnosis are characterized as having persistent, excessive, and uncontrollable worry and nervousness about a variety of everyday situations.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This common form of therapy helps individuals identify and change negative thought patterns.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT?
This term can refer to false beliefs that people with mental illness are "crazy."
What is a stigma?
What is the name of the profession that specializes in behavioral health and allows them to prescribe medications for behavioral health specific diagnosis?
What is a psychiatrist?
This practice involving focused breathing and awareness has been shown to reduce stress.
What is mindfulness/meditation?
People with this disorder often experience periods of extremely “up,” elated, irritable, or energized behavior, and very “down,” sad, indifferent, or hopeless periods.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Exposure therapy is most commonly used to treat this type of disorder.
What are phobias/PTSD?
Name one common myth about mental health.
One example: people with depression are "just being lazy"
What is the difference between a therapist and psychiatrist?
Therapists focus on psychotherapy and behavioral changes, psychiatrists rely on medical interventions to treat mental health disorders and can prescribe medications.
Keeping this type of daily record helps process emotions and track progress.
What is a journal?
A patient believes they are "God," often has difficulty organizing their thoughts, and has been hearing voices telling them to heal the sick. What diagnosis could this patient have?
What is Schizophrenia?
The creator of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
True or False: A therapist has to tell everything you say to your parents.
False- What you say to the therapist is confidential even from your parents, unless the therapist believes that something you tell them may lead to harm to yourself or others.
False- Social workers, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychiatric nurse practitioners are also able to provide psychotherapy.
Sandra's boss asks her to stay late tonight to help her with a proposal. Sandra has been staying late for the past week working on this proposal, and has plans with a friend tonight. Sandra tells her boss she can't stay late and will help her first thing in the morning. What is this an example of?
Setting Boundaries
Billy has been defiant/disobedient to both his parents as well as his teachers. He has been argumentative, tries to hurt the feelings of others, and easily losses his temper for the past 8 months. What disorder may Billy have?
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
This type of therapy focuses on understanding past experiences to address present behaviors.
What is psychodynamic therapy?
What is the best way to combat mental health stigma/myths?
What is education or open discussion?
What does LISW stand for?
Licensed Independent Social Worker
Molly has a hard time being kind to herself and often focuses on the negative. What is one thing she can do everyday to help her improve her mental health?
One example-Gratitude journal