COPING SKILLS & TECHNIQUES
A mental practice that trains attention and awareness to achieve clarity, calmness, and emotional stability, often by focusing on the breath, a mantra, or present‑moment experience.
What is meditation?
An advanced practice registered nurse who assesses, diagnoses, and treats mental health and substance use disorders, including prescribing medications and providing psychotherapy.
What is a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner? (PMHNP)
The most common mental health diagnoses in the United States that can include symptoms of excessive worry, irritability, restlessness, and others
What is Anxiety?
A structured, goal‑focused form of psychotherapy that helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and is widely used to treat conditions such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, and substance use disorders.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy? (CBT)
Short, positive statements you repeat to yourself to challenge negative thoughts, build self‑esteem, and foster a more optimistic mindset
What are affirmations?
A mental health professional trained to assess, diagnose, and treat mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders through psychotherapy and case management
What is a clinical social worker? (LCSW)
The ability to bounce back from difficult situations.
What is Resilience?
An evidence‑based psychotherapy that combines cognitive‑behavioral techniques with mindfulness, acceptance, and distress‑tolerance skills to help people regulate intense emotions and change harmful behaviors.
What is dialectical behavioral therapy?
The people or spaces you can go to for help or in a time of crisis, such as peers, therapists, family, etc.
What are support systems?
A medical doctor (MD or DO) who specializes in diagnosing, treating, and preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, and is licensed to prescribe medication.
What is a psychiatrist?
Hormone associated with the body's stress response
Cortisol
A mental‑health treatment that uses creative expression—such as drawing, painting, or sculpting—within a psychotherapeutic relationship to help people process emotions, reduce distress, and improve psychological well‑being.
What is art therapy?
The practice of writing down your thoughts, feelings, experiences, and reflections
What is journaling?
A person qualified to practice medicine
What is a physician?
The structured process that ensures medications—including prescriptions, over‑the‑counter drugs, and supplements—are taken safely, correctly, and effectively, involving accurate dosing, prevention of drug interactions, and regular review by providers
What is medication management?
A structured psychotherapy that helps people process traumatic memories using bilateral stimulation—most commonly guided side‑to‑side eye movements—to reduce the emotional intensity of those memories
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing? (EMDR)
Recognizing a need you cannot meet alone and reaching out to others for support—whether practical, emotional, or informational
What is asking for help?
a person who is professionally qualified to prepare and dispense medicinal drugs and advise on their use.
What is a pharmacist?
Physical activity, food, sleep quality, genetics, upbringing, etc
a short‑term, goal‑oriented therapeutic approach that emphasizes clients’ strengths, resources, and future goals rather than analyzing past problems
What is solutions-focused brief therapy? (SFBT)