Mental Health 101
The broad term used to describe a condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions can impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.
What is Mental Illness?
Your body’s physical response to changes around you
What is Stress?
Mission Prep is considered this type of care.
What is Residential Treatment?
Residential Treatment typically runs for 30 days, with options to extend.
This term describes a positive and constructive technique or method individuals use to manage stress, navigate challenges, and enhance their emotional well-being
What is Coping Skill?
True or False: Medication is the only treatment method that works for mental health problems.
False.
Medication can be helpful, but different types of therapy help to overcome or improve a mental condition.
What you believe or feel about someone or something.
What is Attitude?
This term describes a state of heightened nervousness, restlessness, and irritability, often accompanied by an increased level of physical activity
What is agitation?
This term is used in mental health care to describe the formal process of releasing an individual from a treatment program after their condition has stabilized and they are deemed ready for a lower level of care.
What is Discharge?
This technique involves using positive statements or phrases that individuals repeat to themselves, often aimed at fostering a positive mindset and challenging negative thoughts.
What are affirmations?
True or False: Setting boundaries is unnecessary and can harm relationships.
FALSE.
Setting boundaries is crucial for healthy relationships. Boundaries define acceptable and unacceptable behaviors, fostering mutual respect and understanding. Without clear boundaries, individuals may feel overwhelmed. Establishing Healthy communication = healthy boundaries
This is a negative opinion about a group of people.
What is a Stigma?
Individuals displaying a tendency to act on immediate urges without considering potential consequences are often described as having a high level of what trait in their behavior?
Name two therapeutic approaches experienced at Mission Prep.
What is ACT, DBT, EMDR, CBT, TF-CBT, Art Therapy, Music Therapy, and Experiential Therapy?
Name two HEALTHY ways you can help your own mental health and reverse physical effects to the brain.
What is Exercise & Meditation?
True or False: All stress is bad.
FALSE.
Some stress can be motivating and is a natural reaction your body has to certain events. It can sometimes give us an "extra push".
When stress becomes too much to handle, that might be an indication to start making some positive mental health changes
The ability to work through and recover from disappointment.
What is Resilience
When faced with a perceived threat, this physiological reaction prepares the body to either confront the danger or escape from it?
What is Flight/Fight Response?
Your Automatic Nervous System (ANS) and Cortisol Levels have a significant role in this response. Engaging in somatic therapy supports regulation of this response.
This type of psychotherapy combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with concepts from Eastern mindfulness practices. (Hint: It involves the use of dialectics)
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)?
This technique is an effective tool for self-reflection and emotional processing. (Hint: Involves writing)
What is Journaling?
True or False: Emotional intelligence involves ignoring emotions to focus on logical thinking.
FALSE.
Emotional Intelligence involves tapping into the Wise Mind, and utilizing both the emotional and logical sides of our brain to engage in rational, prosocial decision-making.
The ability to exert control over one's own emotional state
What is Mood Regulation?
Impulsively making decisions and staying up for days is commonly associated with this.
What is Mania?
This staff ratio ensures client's safety is maintained at all times.
What is a 3:1 staff ratio?
This technique involves breaking tasks into smaller, more manageable parts and prioritizing them.
What is Time Management?
True or False: Assertive communication involves expressing thoughts and feelings in a gentle manner to avoid conflict.
FALSE.
Assertive communication is the opposite of passive communication. In assertiveness, individuals express their thoughts, feelings, and needs openly and honestly, but in a respectful and non-aggressive way such as using "I Statements" and "Emotional Attunement"
This technique focuses your awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.
What is Mindfulness?
Experiencing a sense of detachment from oneself, as if observing one's own thoughts, feelings, and actions from a distance, is known as this phenomenon.
What is Derealization/Depersonalization?
This widely used therapeutic approach focuses on identifying and challenging negative thought patterns to bring about changes in emotional and behavioral responses.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
These techniques uses the senses to connect with the present moment, such as focusing on touch, taste, or smell (i.e. pressing a cold towel on your neck, 5-4-3-2-1 sensing, and observing your breath.)
What is Grounding Techniques?
Asking about suicidal ideation leads to greater chances of suicide.
FALSE.
There is no evidence that suggests acknowledging and speaking openly to your adolescents about thoughts and urges of suicide leads to greater chances of it.