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It’s not just a buzzword, this includes the act of taking care of your mental, physical, and emotional well-being
What is Self-Care?
Formerly Seasonal Affect Disorder, this disorder is characterized by occurrence and remission of depressive episodes during a particular season of the year, with seasonal pattern during the past 2 years.
What is Major depressive disorder with seasonal pattern?
The holidays can create circumstances in which clients feel it is appropriate to purchase gifts for their clinician.
What is accepting gifts?
According to a 2024 APA survey, about 28% of people surveyed said the holiday season increases this – and for individuals with existing mental health concerns, 64% said this condition worsened around the holidays.
What is stress?
This 1988 classic follows a policeman who flies cross country for the holidays only to find himself saving his estranged spouse's festive high rise party from a group of terrorists.
What is Die Hard?
This form of self care includes "thinking" the mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness.
What is meditation?
This subsyndromal seasonally-congruent presentation of mild depression symptoms is denoted by sad mood and low energy. Populations at highest risk are female, are younger, living far from the equator, and have family histories of depression and bipolar disorder.
What is the Winter Blues?
As rapport is established and the therapeutic alliance between practitioner and client grows, Client may express interest in the clinicians experience and beliefs (this can be particularly evident around holiday observances). A clinician sharing personal details about themselves with a client is referred to as this.
What is self-disclosure?
This organization's survey showed that 3 in 5 Americans feel their mental health is negatively impacted by the holidays.
What is NAMI?
This heartwarming 1987 classic follows a Wall Street business man struggling to return home in Chicago for Thanksgiving and has a series of travel mishaps with an eccentric shower curtain ring salesman and makes it home just in time to carve the turkey.
What is Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?
This form of self-care includes breathing control, meditation, adoption to specific bodily postures.
What is yoga?
Sometimes referred to as "secondary stress reaction", this term describes the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of helping others — often through experiences of stress or trauma
What is compassion fatigue?
The demands of being a behavioral health practitioner can sometimes necessitate this cognitive phenomenon, when the clinician needs to focus on tasks specific to their job-role and block out personal stressors or distractions.
What is compartmentalization?
What are negative coping mechanisms?
This 1996 movie depicts the invasion of earth on this holiday which Will Smith's character is a pilot called back to active duty to save the planet with the help of a highly anxious environmentalist played by Jeff Goldblum.
What is Independence Day?
This physical effort engaged in outside or in nature can not only improve physical health but also boosts positive brain chemicals promoting emotional/mental wellbeing.
What is taking a walk / exercise?
This is an experience in which stress from work and life have not been mitigated for an extended period of time, leading to psychological and physical exhaustion becoming more pronounced or chronically experienced by the clinician.
What is Burnout?
Often confused for eachother. This one is the process by which a patient displaces on to their clinician feelings and ideas, which derive from previous figures in their life; by which he relates to their clinician as though he were some former object in their life. While the other involves clinician's initial internal reaction (*conscious or unconscious) to the client; that is based on the clinician’s own psychological needs, life context, and past experiences.
What is transference and countertransference?
What is False?
Suicide rates tend to be lower at 20-40%, however the peak rates happen from April through August.
Therapists love this 1993 cult classic which involves a self-absorbed weatherman reliving the same day over and over again. Clinicians feel the story serves as a metaphor for how patients experience and describe their real lives and their journey to recovery.
What is Groundhog Day?
This self-care method can help to nourish your body, and can also include social interaction promoting emotional/ mental wellbeing.
What is eating Breakfast / Lunch/ Snack?
When treating clients who were victims of trauma, clinicians may themselves experience this which involves emotionally intense experience of engaging in this type of psychotherapy, and can result in the clinician developing many of the same intrusive and debilitating symptoms for which the client was being treated.
What is vicarious trauma?
This is a clinician's decision to deviate from an established boundary for a specific purpose- a brief excursion with a return to the established limits of a professional relationship. Whereas this deviation may cause harm to the client.
What is a boundary crossing and boundary violation?
Research shows that this concept which includes strong social support network, healthy coping mechanisms, routine and structure, and engagement in activities contributes to individual coping with holiday challenges.
What are protective factors?
This 1978 film takes place in remote Haddonfield, IL where a William Shatner masked killer escapes prison to hunt down his next victims.
What is Halloween?