Common Mental Health Terms
Strategies to help you deal with difficult situationsand lessen unpleasant emotions, thoughts and behaviors.
What are Coping Skills?
The ethical and legal duty to protect identity, personal information, diagnosis and discussions from being shared with others without explicit consent.
What is Confidentiality?
An anonomous Suicide & mental health Crisis line, where trained counselors can be called or texted for regarding any mental health struggles, emotional distress, alcohol or drug use concerns.
What is 988
A relationship-based framework that shifts the question from "What is wrong with you?" to "What happened to you?"
What is Trauma informed care/How NCF Volunteers approach individual's needs.
Societal definitions of dangerous, weak and unpredictable. Internalized societal shame causing low self esteem/doubt. Instituional, Legal and systemic policies limiting resources, employment or healthcare.
What are public, self and structural stigma.
First hand experience dealing with or dealing with the effects of mental health or substance abuse challenges or suicide.
What is Lived Experience?
They define what you find acceptable or unacceptable in your interactions with others and clarify where your responsibilities end and another person's begin.
What are Boundaries?
Programs that provide prevention and postvention assistance to those in need in Flathead County
What are PINS and LOSS Team
Abuse, violence or neglect. Witnessing violence in your home/community. Having a family member die by suicide. Lack of safety, stability and bonding due to substance use, mental health, parental separation or family in jail.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
See the world as others see it, Being non-judgemental, Validating feelings, Communicate understanding
What are Components of Empathy/NCF Volunteers
Negative, judgmental and/or discriminatory attitudes toward mental health challenges and those who live with them.
What is Stigma?
Automatic mental associations that occur outside conscious awareness or intentional control. Influencing beliefs and stereotypes towards social groups and individuals.
What is Implicit Bias
A free and confidential, 24/7 service that connects people to essential health and human services.
What is Montana 211
Healthy connections with firends, family, culture and community. Safe storage practices. Coping and problem solving skills. Access to physical and mental health care.
What are protective factors.
It acts as a cognitive shortcut to protect self-esteem and reduce mental effort, though it often leads to flawed judgments, overconfidence, and polarization
What is Confirmation Bias
An emotional response to a disturbing, scary or shocking experience that overwhelms and individuals ability to cope.
What is Trauma?
In the case of any suspicion or concern for imminent danger of suicidal ideations, harm to self or harm to others.
What are exceptions to Confidentiality.
A plain clothes, mobile behavioral health response unit operated by the Flathead County Health Department. The team pairs licensed clinicians with care coordinators to de-escalate mental health, substance use, and basic-need crises on-site.
What is the CAT team.
Aspects that can be observable externally like appearance or behavior verses the expression of how someone is feeling or experiencing something.
What are signs vs symptoms
A community organization that strives to reach across all ideologies and beliefs, faiths, socio economic levels and life stages to provide access to mental health resources and awareness education in the Flathead Valley.
Who is The Nate Chute Foundation.
Conditions in which people live, learn, work and play that impact their health and quality of life.
What are social determinants?
The legal requirment to report ongoing abuse or neglect of children, elderly individuals or people with disabilities.
Mandatory Reporting/NCF Volunteers
An amazing group increasing community mental health awareness and providing education about suicide.
NCF Volunteers!!!
Using methods like the 5-4-3-2-1 sensory technique (noting things you see, touch, hear, smell, and taste) to help bring someone—or yourself—back to the present moment.
What are grounding techniques.
Retraining your brain by envisioning people in different roles, educationg yourself and practicing empathy.
What are methods for unlearning bias.