What's the Dx?
This disorder is marked by repetitive, involuntary movements, and vocalizations.
Tic Disorder.
Yes!
Steve Baker
A simple and basic form of therapy that involves identifying maladaptive thought patterns and working to change it into positive thinking, often in the form of homework given by the counselor.
CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
T/F- Kids should not be diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder or Major Depressive Disorder because they are too young?
False
Dx in adulthood typically, and has symptoms that include visual and/or auditory hallucinations, delusions, negative, and cognitive.
Schizophrenia
A kid yells, "F this!" and runs through the front doors and into the parking lot.
No!
The Clinical Director of the company.
Shannan Johnson
T/F- ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) is a useful and helpful treatment for what?
Major Depressive Disorder
What is a short form of therapy that believes people have the strengths, wisdom, experiences, and resources to change, and is future-focused, and aims to identify strengths, resources, and positive experiences?
SFBT- Solution-Focused (Brief) Therapy
Develops in 1 in 3 people who experience severe trauma and symptoms include intrusion, avoidance, alterations in cognition and mood, and alterations in arousal and reactivity.
PTSD- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Leading a child by both wrists to the calm room for calm down time. Is this an IR, seclusion, and/or restraint?
IR only
Our Education Administrative Assistant.
Olivia Grable
The body releasing stress hormones long-term can lead to what kind of health issues?
Damaged blood vessels and arteries, high blood pressure, hypertension, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and/or addiction
What are three MOTIVES behind self harming behaviors?
Relief, attention-seeking, feeling alive, coping mechanism, self punishment, direct emotion inward, communication
This disorder may develop if the child's basic needs for comfort, affection and nurturing aren't met and loving, caring, stable attachments with others are not established.
RAD Reactive Attachment Disorder
Open-hand guiding an escalated student to a calm room and giving them time inside by themselves with the door closed. Is this an IR, seclusion, and/or restraint?
IR only
Our second-in-command.
Idette Adams
Name four warning signs of SI (suicidal ideation).
Self-care changes, withdrawal/isolation, obsession with death and dying, lack of response to praise, unnecessary risk-taking, feeling sick, giving away possessions or important belongings, verbal hints, problems focusing, becoming suddenly cheerful after a period of depression
What hormone is released by the adrenal glands when a person is frequently highly stressed?
Cortisol
Can you name the hormone/neurotransmitter that is also released that is responsible for increasing the heart rate?
Dx in adolescents and marked by aggression/cruelty to people and animals, bullying, threatening, use of weapons, forceful sexual activity, property destruction, deceitfulness, truancy, law-breaking, etc.
Conduct Disorder
Open-hand-guiding an escalated student to a calm room and holding the door shut for them so they calm down. Is this an IR, seclusion, and/or restraint?
YES!! IR, seclusion
The Community Integration Director
Nolan Marzett
An autonomic physiological response and a survival-mode instinct.
Fight or Flight
Very helpful intense form of therapy utilized wtih patients suffering from serious mental health conditions that helps the brain process and release traumatic memories in an unusual way—through your eye movements.
EMDR- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
Can you list two conditions it is useful in treating?