STEPS
The full name of the therapeutic modality, “CBT”.
What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
“a condition characterized by excessive worry about real or perceived threats, typically leading to avoidance behaviors and often to physical symptoms such as increased heart rate and muscle tension”
What is anxiety?
The name of the Toronto neighbourhood where the STEPS clinic is located.
What is Regent Park?
An estimate of income and expenses for a set period of time.
What is a budget?
A movie about a young girl named Riley, and her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness – as she navigates a new city, house and school.
What is "Inside Out"?
The two ways STEPS clients can have their medications administered.
What are orally/by mouth or by injection?
“the general term for conditions that affect the mind, causing a loss of contact with reality or trouble deciding what’s real and what’s not”
What is psychosis?
The largest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the CN Tower?
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
What is empathy?
A romantic docuseries where people with autism look for love and navigate the changing world of dating and relationships.
What is "Love on the Spectrum"?
Physical or mental features or experiences which indicate a condition of disease, particularly one that is apparent to the patient. Can be positive, negative, or cognitive.
What are symptoms?
“a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest”
What is depression?
Toronto’s professional sports teams in hockey, baseball, and basketball.
What are the Maple Leafs, the Blue Jays, and the Raptors?
They allow each person in a relationship or family to communicate their wants and needs, while also respecting the wants and needs of others.
What are (healthy) boundaries?
This 2019 movie about ‘a failed stand-up comedian who is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City’ can be considered a harmful characterization of trauma and mental illness.
What is The Joker?
This medication is used to help manage the possible metabolic (weight gain) side effects of antipsychotic medications.
What is metformin?
“a chronic, severe disorder that affects the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality, and relates to others”
What is schizophrenia?
A favourite Toronto celebrity who got their start on Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Who is Drake?
The process of exchanging ideas, thoughts, opinions, knowledge, and data so that the message is received and understood with clarity and purpose.
What is (effective) communication?
A nickname for “psychiatrists”, often heard in television shows and movies.
What is a “shrink”?
The acronym “EPI”; STEPS is this type of program.
What is Early Psychosis Intervention?
“a disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, ranging from extreme highs to extreme lows”
What is bipolar?
The Mohawk word for Toronto; meaning “the place in the water where the trees are standing”.
What is Tkaronto?
Having an understanding of your own thoughts, feelings, values, beliefs, and actions.
What is self-awareness?
This concept, defined by “negative attitudes, beliefs or behaviours about or towards a group of people because of their situation in life” can be encouraged by poor media representations of mental illness.
What is stigma?