Mental Health Disorders
Anhedonia is a common symptom of which mental health disorder
What is depression
3 Coping Skills to manage depressive symptoms
Self-Care
Reach out to Supports
Get Active
Journal
Call Someone
Watch Something Funny
This part of the brain helps you think, plan, and make decisions.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
26% of Americans ages 18 and older - about 1 in 4 adults - suffers from what?
What is a mental health disorder
This therapy focuses on identifying and challenging unhelpful thoughts to change emotions and behaviors.
A person with this diagnosis has a very hard time knowing what is real and what is not real
What is schizophrenia
A technique that asks you to find things you can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste (5 senses) to calm down when feeling anxious or distressed.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 Coping Strategy
This brain chemical is often linked to feelings of happiness and pleasure.
What is dopamine?
The two main types of professionals who provide therapeutic care
What are social workers and clinical mental health counselors
This CBT-based approach teaches skills like distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
A person with this diagnosis experiences moods that alternate between depression and elation
What is Bipolar disorder
3 Examples of maladaptive (unhealthy) coping skills
What are substance use, violence, outbursts, isolation
Neurotransmitter involved primarily in depressive and anxiety disorders and possible eating disorder.
Serotonin
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
What is FALSE?
This approach helps clients notice thoughts without attaching to them, rather than trying to change the thoughts themselves and uses skills like riding the emotional wave and values based action
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
A sudden, overpowering fright response or feeling of terror for no known reason is an example of this.
What is a Panic Attack?
A coping strategy based around expressing appreciation for good things
What is gratitude
SSRI stands for ____________
What is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor?
Combining these two treatments is shown to be the most effective means of addressing underlying mental health struggles.
Medication and therapy
This therapy uses bilateral stimulation to help process traumatic memories.
What is EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
Trauma can make the brain stay in this survival mode.
What is fight, flight, or freeze?
2 actions that could help you manage a panic attack
Relaxation techniques
Deep breathing
Journaling
Talking it out
Meditation
This part of the brain helps detect danger and triggers the fight, flight, or freeze response.
What is the amygdala?
This concept means the brain can change and heal over time.
What is neuroplasticity?
This long-term therapy (developed by Freud) emphasizes insight, meaning-making, and relational patterns over symptom reduction.
What is Psychoanalysis?