Self Care
What is self care?
What is the practice of taking care of your physical, emotional, mental health.
What is a condition that affects attention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity?
What is ADHD (Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder)
What is the definition of coping skills?
The thoughts and behaviors you rely on to manage stressful situations and negative emotions are called coping skills or strategies.
What therapy helps you to change thought patterns?
What is CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)
CBT helps to explore negative thoughts that lead to self-destructive feelings and actions.
Who declared January 1st a national holiday?
Who is Julius Caesar
He named the month after Janus, the Roman god of doors and gates. Janus had two faces, one looking forward and one looking back.
Name 3 self-care activities for physical health
What is stretching, exercising, yoga, naps, bedtime rituals, dancing, sports activities, medical check-ups
What condition is defined by disproportionately high levels of fear, anxiety, and avoidance in response to certain objects or situations?
What is anxiety disorders
Name a new healthy coping skill that you will use
What is socializing, breathing techniques, knowing your triggers, journaling, making a gratitude list, writing a letter, using a stress ball, ripping up pieces of paper, etc.
What therapy teaches you to accept your negative emotions rather than eliminating them?
What is DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy)
DBT teaches you to increase your distress tolerance, regulate emotions, and be mindful while triggering events.
What is 45%
Name 3 self-care activities for emotional health
What is art, journaling, mood board, activities that make you laugh, practicing forgiveness, mindfulness, meditation
What involves changes in brain chemistry that creates a dependence on the substance you’re using?
What is alcohol and substance abuse disorders
Why are coping skills important?
What are they help us reduce stress and anxiety, tolerate stressful situations in life, adapt, become more secure, and be more healthy.
What therapy focuses on the present instead of the past and is used quickly?
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
For some, focusing on the past is not helpful. The first step is to identify strengths or skills already acquired that can help you overcome obstacles.
What are the most common New Years resolutions?
What is lose weight, quit smoking, spend less and save more, get organized
Name 3 self-care activities for mental health
What is imagery/visualization, coloring/doodling, remembering positive memories, forest bathing, affirmations/mantras, regular check-ins with your therapist, progressive muscle relaxation, setting boundaries with others
What involves elements of thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions).
What is OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder)
True or False: Avoiding a problem is a healthy coping skill
What is False
Avoiding a problem is considered a maladaptive coping mechanism. They often feel like helpful solutions, but they can make it harder for you to manage your thoughts and feelings or solve the problem long-term.
Eye-movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) is this kind of therapy.
What is Trauma Therapy
Traumas can include fighting in a war, surviving natural disasters, sexual or physical abuse, and even losing a loved one.
25 % of Americans give up their New Years resolutions by what week in January?
What is the second week of January
What year did self-care become a medical practice?
What is 1950's
With the rise of “person or patient-centered medicine” came a greater emphasis on individualistic acts and practices that would improve the health of patients. This introduction of patient autonomy to healthcare gave birth to the first-ever self-care movement.
True or False: Major Depressive Disorder is considered a mood disorder.
True
Depressive disorders involve sad, empty, or irritable moods along with physical and thought (cognitive) changes that affect your ability to function.
True or False: Coping skills are used only when you are in crisis
False
Coping skills are not only used during crisis. Coping skills can be practiced and developed over time.
What therapy allows a group of people to come together with one or more therapists?
What is Group Therapy
Group therapy is usually focused on one topic and provides a safe setting where people can come together, ask questions, and receive guidance from a therapist.
The group setting reduces feelings of isolation and can act as a support for people who may not feel comfortable sharing certain things with friends or family.
If Santa is the symbol of Christmas, what is the symbol for New Year?
What is Baby New Year
Baby New Year is often seen in a diaper, black top hat, and a sash showing the numbers of the new year. Myth states that he matures into an old man during the year.