Interventions and Skills
The quality or state of being conscious or aware of something
What is mindfulness?
A return to unhealthy behavior after a period of recovery.
What is relapse?
Explores the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors through the use of exercises and worksheets.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
The most diagnosed mental health disorder by ICD-10 code.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
A person who is legally required to give a spoken or written account of any suspicion of abuse or neglect of vulnerable people.
What is a mandated reporter?
A skill used to engage clients, explore their perspectives, and evoke their own motivation for change
What are OARS (open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries)?
Someone is intending to start the healthy behavior in the foreseeable future.
What is contemplation?
The 4 modules are mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotional regulation, and distress tolerance.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy?
The leading cause of disability worldwide according to the World Health Organization.
What is depression?
When a treatment provider projects their own beliefs, feelings, or biases onto a client.
What is countertransference?
A peer supported intervention intended to empower the client to identify the tools and resources they have that support their health and wellbeing.
What is a Wellness Recovery Action Plan?
Someone has recently changed their behavior and intends to keep moving forward with that behavior change.
What is action?
Uses bilateral stimulation to process trauma and distressing events or feelings.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing?
The 2nd leading cause of death among people ages 10 to 24 in the United States.
What is suicide?
A form of stress or tension that arises from frequent contact with traumatized people.
What is compassion fatigue?
The connection and mutual understanding between a therapist and a client based on empathy and respect.
What is rapport?
Someone has sustained their behavior change for a while.
What is maintenance?
The theory that humans are born with a need to form a close emotional bond with a caregiver.
What is Attachment Theory?
The most common phobia.
What is Arachnophobia (fear of spiders)?
The limits and rules used to protect oneself and define acceptable behavior for oneself and others.
What are boundaries?
The process of facing fear in a series of steps, each step becoming incrementally more difficult than the last.
What is gradual exposure (systematic desensitization)?
Someone has made the decision to change and is ready to take action very soon.
What is preparation or determination?
A perspective that views symptoms and behaviors as an individual’s best and most resilient attempt to manage, cope with, and rise above their lived experience.
What is trauma-informed care?
The most prescribed psychiatric drug by number of prescriptions (2013).
What is Alprazolam (Xanax)?
The best way to prove what was done or what occurred.
What is documenting?