Mindfulness
The practice of being fully present and engaged in the current moment, paying attention to your thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and the environment around you without judgment?
What is Mindfulness?
This is the acronym for the therapeutic technique in CBT where you learn to break down problems into smaller, manageable steps and set achievable goals.
What are SMART goals?
This component of Emotional Intelligence involves the ability to understand and recognize the emotions of others.
What is Empathy?
This type of trauma results from a single event, such as a car accident, natural disaster, or violent attack.
What is Acute Trauma?
This international event takes place each May to raise awareness and educate the public about mental health issues and reduce stigma.
What is Mental Health Awareness Month?
This mindfulness technique can be practiced during a meal, focusing on each bite, the taste, and the sensation of eating.
What is Mindful Eating?
This key CBT concept refers to the process of identifying and challenging distorted or unhelpful thoughts.
What is Cognitive Restructuring?
This term refers to emotions that occur when someone evaluates a situation as beneficial or harmful to their well-being, like happiness, sadness, or anger.
What are Primary Emotions?
This symptom of trauma involves a detachment from emotions, experiences, or surroundings, often as a defense mechanism in response to overwhelming events.
What is Dissociation?
This condition is characterized by an excessive preoccupation with a perceived flaw in appearance, leading to repetitive behaviors such as checking, grooming, or mirror avoidance.
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
This practice of paying attention to bodily sensations is a core aspect of mindfulness meditation.
What is Body Scan Meditiation?
This occurs when someone focuses on the negative aspects of a situation while ignoring any positive elements.
What is Mental Filtering?
Research shows that developing emotional awareness can improve this type of health by lowering stress levels and improving cardiovascular function.
What is Physical Health?
Trauma can sometimes cause a constant state of heightened alertness, which is often referred to as this.
What is Hypervigilance?
Although this can be a source of connection and support, it has also been linked to increased rates of anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbances, particularly in adolescents and young adults.
Practicing mindfulness has been shown to reduce this negative mental state, which is often linked to high stress and anxiety. This mental state is defined as excessive, repetitive thinking of past events/problems.
What is Rumination?
This adaptation of CBT also focuses on changing thoughts and behaviors, but it places a stronger emphasis on acceptance and tolerance.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)?
This form of emotional awareness encourages people to identify their triggers and monitor patterns in their emotions, often leading to more effective coping strategies.
What is Emotion Tracking?
This is the term for trauma experienced by individuals who witness or are indirectly affected by traumatic events, such as through media coverage or the experiences of loved ones.
What is Vicarious Trauma?
This model in psychology is an approach that understands mental health and behavior as being influenced by three interconnected factors, physical, mental, and social.
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
Research has shown that regular mindfulness practice can increase this part of the brain, which is linked to attention and self-regulation.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
This concept in CBT refers to the understanding that there is a reciprocal relationship between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, with any of the three elements potentially influencing the others.
What is the cognitive-behavioral model or the cognitive triangle?
This theory of emotion, proposed by psychologist James-Lange, suggests that our emotional experience results from physiological changes in the body.
What is the James-Lange Theory of emotion?
This therapeutic technique, developed by Peter Levine, focuses on helping individuals release stored trauma in the body and restore physical and emotional balance.
What is Somatic Experiencing?
This NABH employee was an EMT.
Who is Bre'iera Moore?