HR and Legal Matters
This is a requirement under the ADA that mandates an employer change the work environment to allow an individual with a disability an equal employment opportunity.
What is a reasonable accommodation?
This general term for a variety of mood disorders is characterized by persistent sadness, loss of interest in previously enjoyed activities, and physical symptoms like changes in sleep and appetite.
What is Depression?
This mental health professionals has either an M.D. or D.O. (medical doctor or doctor of osteopathy) and can prescribe medications.
What is a psychiatrist?
A state of worry or mental tension caused by a difficult situation.
What is stress?
This popular song by Twenty One Pilots captures the artists' feelings of anxiety for the future, nostalgia, and challenge in the transition from childhood to adulthood responsibilities.
What is Stressed Out?
This law protects employees with a mental illness from discrimination in hiring, promotion, compensation, or termination.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act
A disorder that may develop after a person has been exposed to a traumatic event, characterized by intrusive memories, avoidance, and hyper-arousal.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Unlike a psychiatrist, this doctoral-level professional, who often provides testing and therapy, is generally not licensed to prescribe medication.
What is a Psychologist?
This refers to the practice of caring for one's health in several domains described by the World Health Organization: intellectual, emotional, spiritual, physical, intellectual, professional, and financial wellness.
What is self-care?
Who is Em Beihold?
An anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, ADHD, sleep apnea, multiple sclerosis, and migraines are all examples of this type of disability.
What are invisible disabilities?
A severe mental health disorder characterized by an ongoing pattern of two or more of the following: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, or catatonic behavior.
What is Schizophrenia?
An employee who works weekly with a mental health professional is probably seeing a person with this degree.
What is a licensed therapist?
This is an employer-sponsored program designed to assist employees with personal or work-related problems that may impact their job performance, health, and well-being. It may offer financial counseling, therapy, and case management.
What is an employee assistance program (EAP)?
These children's books and series feature a series of characters with different mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, and eating disorders, as they wander through a vast woodland.
What is Winnie the Pooh?
This non-profit consulting service, often referred to by its acronym JAN, is the leading source of free, expert, and confidential guidance on workplace accommodations and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
What is the Job Accommodation Network?
This is the most common anxiety disorder, characterized by persistent, excessive, and unrealistic worry about everyday routine issues for at least six months.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
This master's level clinician, who provides assessment and treatment and often focuses on the client's environment and resources, generally cannot prescribe medication.
What is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)?
A type of grounding and mindfulness-based activity that involves tensing and relaxing different areas of the body to reduce stress.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
This celebrity, well-known for her role in a popular TV show taking place in France, struggled with an eating disorder in her teen years and starred in film called "To the Bone," which documented a character's harrowing journey with anorexia.
Who is Lilly Collins?
According to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), healthcare plans must cover mental health treatment and ______ ______ treatment at the same rates they cover any other medical conditions.
What is substance abuse treatment
A person experiencing recurrent, unexpected episodes of intense fear accompanied by physical symptoms like heart palpitations and a feeling of impending doom may be diagnosed with this type of anxiety disorder.
What is Panic Disorder?
This professional undergoes training in using their lived experiences to become a peer and help coach someone in recovery from a similar mental health condition.
What is a certified peer recovery specialist?
This exercise involves breathing in, holding one's breath, and exhaling for the same number of counts (ex: 4 seconds each) to engage the parasympathetic nervous system and a state of calm.
What is box breathing?
This pop star and actress has been outspoken about her personal experiences with Bipolar Disorder, even co-founding the Rare Impact Fund.
Who is Selena Gomez?