Youth
This approach to therapy focuses on identifying and leveraging a client's strengths and positive aspects to help address mental health challenges.
What is strengths-based therapy?
This term refers to experiences or incidents, such as exposure to violence or neglect, that overwhelm an adolescent's ability to cope and can significantly affect their mental health.
What is trauma?
Adolescents from this ethnic group experience greater barriers to mental health services compared to their white counterparts, due in part to distrust in external institutions
Who are African American adolescents?
Youth in marginalized communities, especially African American communities, often face this type of stigma around mental health, which can discourage them from seeking help.
What is minimization or lack of belief in mental health issues?
Adolescents from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups often experience this, which can lead them to avoid seeking mental health care.
What is stigma?
These traditional masculine norms, particularly in African American communities, can discourage young men from seeking help for mental health issues.
What is being "tough" or not showing emotion?
Mental health conditions like depression and anxiety can lead to this academic consequence among adolescents.
What is poor academic performance?
This mental health condition, affecting about 20% of adolescents, is characterized by persistent sadness, loss of interest in activities, and possible suicidal ideation.
What is depression?
This technique involves including both the adolescent and their family in treatment plans and ensuring that parents are informed and involved.
What is family-focused counseling?
Adolescents in these types of areas often face a lack of mental health care providers, worsening their access to care.
What are rural areas?
This factor, rooted in past racism, often results in misdiagnoses of mental health conditions among African American and Hispanic/Latino adolescents.
What is clinical bias?
This social factor, such as lack of insurance or high treatment costs, often prevents families from seeking mental health care for their adolescents.
What is socioeconomic status?
This type of therapy helps adolescents understand the connection between their behaviors, thoughts, and emotions, allowing for more positive mental health outcomes.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
According to research, nearly 32% of adolescents in the U.S. live with this type of mental health disorder.
What is anxiety disorder?
This term describes when clinicians misdiagnose or inaccurately evaluate mental health symptoms due to unfamiliarity with a client’s cultural beliefs and values.
What is cultural bias?