Diagnoses
A mental health diagnosis defined by a combination of "positive" symptoms (such as hallucinations) and "negative" symptoms (such as catatonia).
What is Schizophrenia?
The most common type of delusions; involve the theme of being followed, harassed, cheated, poisoned or drugged, conspired against, spied on, attacked, or obstructed in the pursuit of goals.
What are Persecutory Delusions?
This level of support involves talking someone through a task step by step as it is done.
(Hint: It's often used when an individual struggles with inattention or disorganized thinking)
What is Coaching?
This disorder is much like a combination of a major mood disorder (such as bipolar disorder) along with schizophrenia-like symptoms.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
This symptom affects the person's motivation to pursue goals and activities and makes it difficult to initiate tasks.
It is often associated with being a "negative" symptom of psychotic disorders, or with major depressive disorder.
What is Apathy?
This technique is used to intentionally refocus on a subject of high benefit, while avoiding undermining the importance of the current subject.
What is Redirection?*
This disorder causes dramatic moods—from overly "high" and/or irritable to sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with periods of normal mood in between.
What is Bipolar disorder?
A disturbance in thinking which results in inconsistent behavior or speech.
We might notice this when a person talks or behaves in a manner that is difficult to follow, such as by jumping from one topic/step to another, stopping in the middle of a sentence or task, or by making up new words.
What is Disorganized Thinking?
This type of therapy is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, but focuses on supporting people who experience intense emotions.
It tends to use learning exercises, metaphors, and acronyms to help learn and un-learn behaviors.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
This diagnosis negatively affects how people think, feel, and act.
It is categorized by a deep feeling of sadness, and/or loss of ability to feel pleasure in doing things they would otherwise enjoy.
What is Depressive Disorder (Depression)?
Perceptions of any of the five sensory modalities-- seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, or smelling something that "isn't there"
What are Hallucinations?
A group of techniques that help to manage anxiety by reorienting the person to the present moment.
Some examples include focusing on bodily sensations (seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, tasting), using guided meditations, mantras, or focusing on body sensations during self-care such as exercise or hygiene tasks.
What are Grounding Techniques?
In order to be diagnosed with this disorder, the person has to have a number of symptoms within each of the following categories:
Arousal Responses, Cognitive Responses, Intrusive Responses, and Avoidance Responses.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This symptom is the inability to inhibit behaviors and thoughts as they are initially conceived.
It is often associated with diagnoses such as ADHD.
What is Impulsivity?
A type of listening that involves listening to understand what the speaker is saying, then paraphrasing back what was heard.
This can help an individual feel understood and supported, and is used in verbal de-escalation.
What is Reflective Listening?