Coping
This term refers to a support network of friends, family, or mentors who can provide emotional help when needed.
What is a support system?
True or False: medication is the only treatment method that works for mental health problems.
False! Medication can be helpful, but therapy and counseling are also effective forms of overcoming mental illness.
Emotion that often results from underlying feelings such as: loss, fear, or frustration.
Anger
What is mental health?
Our emotional, psychological, and social well-being
What can you catch, but not throw?
A cold!
Describe three creative coping skills.
Music, drawing, color, painting, ect
Assistance from these and being compliant allow us to focus the mind to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state
What is medication?
Name one physical/external sign of anger.
Flushed face, clenched fists, yelling
What are symptoms of depression?
Loss of interest in activities, low moods, changes in apetite, etc
What goes around the world, but stays in a corner?
A stamp!
A natural way to get into shape and increase feelings of happiness is to
What is exercise?
A sudden, overpowering fright response or feeling of terror for no known reason is an example of this.
Panic Attack
Name three negative coping skills.
Substance use, self-harm, isolating, denying problem, etc.
This is the most common mental illness in high school students:
Anxiety
What do you break before you use it?
An egg
Name a stage of forgiveness.
Uncovering Phase, Decision Phase, Work Phase, Deepening Phase,
DOUBLE POINTS!
Name a cognitive distortion.
Magnification and Minimization, Catastrophizing, Overgeneralization, Magical Thinking, Personalization, Jumping to Conclusion: mind reading and fortune telling, Emotional Reasoning, Disqualifying the Positive, "Should" statements, All or Nothing
What is an example of protective factors?
Financial stability, good physical health, supportive family, motivation to succeed, education
What is a SMART goal?
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Timely
What problem does a teacher with uncontrollable eyes have?
He cannot control his pupils!
What type of coping skill is meditation?
Mindfulness
This term describes the process of setting and achieving goals, which can increase self-esteem and purpose.
What is goal setting?
Describe the 5-4-3-2-1 Coping Strategy
A technique that asks you to find things you can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste (5 senses) to calm down when feeling anxious or distressed.
DOUBLE POINTS!
What are the eight dimensions of wellness?
emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, social, and spiritual
What do you get when you mix sulfur, tungsten, and silver?
SWAG