Statistics
How many Americans will experience a mental illness at some point in their lives? (x in x amount)
1 in 5
Focuses on exploring relationships among a person's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. During this treatment, a therapist will actively work with a person to uncover unhealthy patterns of thought and how they may be causing self-destructive behaviors and beliefs.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
causes severe symptoms like: persistent sad, anxious, or “empty” mood, feelings of hopelessness, or pessimism, irritability, feelings of guilt, worthlessness, or helplessness, loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities, decreased energy or fatigue. Must be present for 2 weeks.
Depression
What aspect of the V.A.R (validate, appreciate, refer) model is being represented?
Validate
True or False: Individuals are either mentally ill or mentally healthy.
False, in fact the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates only about 17% of adults are in a state of "optimal" mental health.
Suicide is the ________ leading cause of death among people ages 15-34 in the United States
2nd
Used to treat PTSD. Replaces negative emotional reactions to difficult memories with less-charged or positive reactions or beliefs. Performing a series of back and forth, repetitive eye movements for 20-30 seconds can help individuals change these emotional reactions.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR)
display excessive anxiety or worry, most days for at least 6 months, about a number of things such as personal health, work, social interactions, and everyday routine life circumstances. Symptoms include: feeling restless, wound-up, or on-edge, being easily fatigued, having difficulty concentrating; mind going blank
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
What aspect of the V.A.R (validate, appreciate, refer) model is being represented?
True or False: All individuals who suffer from a mental illness are violent.
False, the American Psychological Association reports that only 7.5% of crimes are directly related to symptoms of mental illness.
True or False: Over 50% of college students tell a friend they are feeling suicidal before anyone else
True, 67% of college students
A masters-level health care professionals are trained to evaluate a person’s mental health and use therapeutic techniques based on specific training programs.
Counselor, therapist
type of depression that comes and goes with the seasons, typically starting in the late fall and early winter and going away during the spring and summer.
Seasonal Affective Disorder
What aspect of the V.A.R (validate, appreciate, refer) model is being represented?
Refer
This can help address feelings of isolation and help people gain insight into their mental health condition. Allows members to share frustrations, successes, referrals for specialists, where to find the best community resources and tips on what works best when trying to recover.
Support groups
What percent of adults receive the mental health treatment they need?
44%
Often the first point of contact for a person in crisis or their loved one. They provide assessment, screening, triage, preliminary counseling, and information and referral services.
24-hour crisis lines
Symptoms of this illness include: extremely restricted eating, extreme thinness (emaciation), intense fear of gaining weight, distorted body image, a self-esteem that is heavily influenced by perceptions of body weight and shape, or a denial of the seriousness of low body weight, preoccupation will losing weight and maintaining an extremely low weight
Anorexia nervosa
What aspect of the V.A.R model is demonstrated in this example?
Stacy is talking to her friend about feeling depressed and having trouble getting out of bed. Her friend thanks her for coming to her and talking about how she is feeling.
Appreciate
How many mental health facilities are there in Lucas County?
21, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
How many people say they have experienced mental health stigma?
3 in 4
a procedure where controlled electric currents are passed through the brain while the person is under general anesthesia. This results in a brief, controlled seizure that affects neurons and chemicals in the brain. It is most often used to treat severe depression and depression with psychosis that has not responded to medications
ECT (electroconvulsive therapy)
a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels and behaves, can result in the individual losing touch with reality. Symptoms categorized into positive and negative.
Schizophrenia
What aspect of the V.A.R model is demonstrated in this example?
Ryan is talking on the phone with his friend who is expressing a lack of interest in activities he used to find enjoyable. Ryan suggests they go on a walk together in the morning in order to help his friend get out of his dorm.
Refer
What month is mental health awareness month?
May