Psychoeducation
What is psychosis?
A break from reality.
What are the 3 C's?
Catch it.
Check it.
Change it.
What is something you enjoy that your family does together?
your answer!
What is a coping skill?
Actions used to manage stress and regulate emotions during challenging situations
Name 1-3 people you can turn to for support?
Your answer
What is trauma?
A deeply distressing event that overwhelms an individual's coping abilities. It can lead to feelings of fear, helplessness, or lasting sadness.
What does PLAN stand for?
PLAN
Prepare for the situation
Let go of the worry
Accept the distress
Note all your coping skills, natural supports, and
resources
What is the last thing you did that was fun?
Your answer?
What are my coping skills?
-Deep Breathing
-Opposite Action
-Taking a walk
-5,4,3,2,1
etc...
What is a Motivational Interviewing Skill that promotes effective communication?
OARS
Open Ending Questions
Affirmations
Reflective Listening
Summarizing
What is a delusion?
A delusion is a fixed, false belief that a person holds with strong certainty despite clear evidence that contradicts it.
True or false: If a client is experiencing symptoms of psychosis, they have schizophrenia.
False! Schizophrenia includes symptoms of psychosis. One key difference is duration and persistence. Schizophrenia is a long-term condition characterized by recurring episodes of psychosis, whereas psychosis itself can be a temporary state.
What is your love language?
-Words of Affirmation
-Acts of Service
-Receiving Gift
-Quality Time
-Physical Touch
What are my child's/parent's coping skills?
These are examples. There may be many more: Breathing, taking a walk, cooking, spending time with friends, art, listening to music, playing sports, exercising, eating
(Youth): Do you recognize any of your behaviors/ thoughts/feelings as responses of trauma/psychosis?
(Parents) Have you seen your child express symptoms of trauma/psychosis? Does this explain some of your child's symptoms? Do you have more questions your therapist could support with?)
There are no wrong answers here!
What is a hallucination?
A hallucination is a false perception of objects or events involving your senses—sight, sound, smell, touch, or taste—that feels completely real even though it has no external physical source.
RID
Relax-manage limbic system
Identify Triggers –be curious, make hypotheses
Decide what to do
What is something my family can do to help me when I need it?
Your Answer.
How can my parent help me when I am mad/sad/irritated/experiencing psychosis?
Their Answer
Check ins
Giving space for a certain amount of time
Doing an activity together
What are the types of delusions?
Persecutory (Paranoid): Believing that someone is tracking, harming, or conspiring against you.
Grandiose: Believing you have exceptional power, wealth, talent, or a special connection to a deity.
Erotomanic: Believing that another person—often a celebrity or someone of higher status—is in love with you.
Jealous: Believing without proof that a romantic partner is unfaithful.
Somatic: Believing there is a physical defect, illness, or abnormality in your body.
How is mindfulness with psychosis different than with trauma?
Psychosis: eyes should be open, rather than closed, emphasis on external cues and surroundings
-stay away from meditations
-encourage grounding techniques to help ground back to reality
Name 3 strengths you have.
Any answer is correct!
There are 5 types of hallucinations. How many can you name?
What is a way you'll engage in self-care?
Name your answer!