True or False
Prevalence
Diagnoses
Signs/Symptoms
Trauma Informed Care
100
True or False: Children don't experience mental health problems.
False. -> 1 in 6 youth ages 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year. 1/2 of all mental health disorders show first signs before a person turns 14, and 3/4 of mental health disorders begin before the age of 24. And suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death in people aged 10-34.
100
1 in ___ US adults experience mental illness each year.
5
100
________ is a developmental disorder where there are significant problems with attention, hyperactivity, or acting impulsively.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
100
__________ disorders can result in dizziness and dehydration, abnormally low body weight, brittle nails or dry skin and hair, and even a stunt in growth or delayed puberty.
Eating
100
_______ is a deeply distressing or disturbing experience.
Trauma
200
True or False: Unlike other medical conditions, there is no way to prevent mental illness.
False. -> Like any medical condition/disorder, not every case is preventable. But, if greater attention is focused on known risk factors, such as exposure to childhood trauma, the risk of mental illness occuring is significantly lower.
200
In 2017, it was estimated that ______ million adults in the US aged 18+ had a mental illness.
46.6
200
___________ is a developmental disorder that often times makes it difficult to socialize and communicate with others.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
200
People who suffer from _______ may lose interest in activities they enjoy, show a change in sleeping, eating, drinking patterns, and may seem disconnected from those around them.
Depression
200
__________ is a paradigm shift in thinking from "what is wrong with you?" to "what happened to you?".
Trauma Informed Care -> Trauma informed care reduces the chance of re-traumatizing your client and can improve your relationships with clients. It can also improve work environments as it has been shown to increase job satisfaction and reduce stress levels.
300
True or False: Medication works better than therapy when it comes to treating mental illness.
False. -> Neither necessarily works better than the other. Treatment is individualized and based on the person and their disorder. Based on the person- one, both, or maybe neither (taking an alternative therapy approach), may work best for the client.
300
Depression rates are the highest in the ____________ region of the US.
"The Mountain West" ->Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona.
300
___________ is characterized as disruptions to a person's thoughts and perceptions that make it difficult for them to recognize what is real and what isn't.
Psychosis
300
People with severe ________ may have episodes where they feel numbness in their legs or hands, feel tightness or pressure in their chest, and in worst case scenarios, may even feel like they are having a heart attack; especially if they are in a situation they haven't been in before or makes them uncomfortable.
Anxiety
300
ACEs stands for ___________
Adverse Childhood Experiences-> Adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood (0-17 years). The 10 ACEs are: physical abuse, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, having an alcoholic parent, a mother who’s a victim of domestic violence, a family member in jail, a family member diagnosed with a mental illness, and the disappearance of a parent through divorce, death or abandonment. Each of these count as one point; the higher score you have, the higher your risk of disease, and emotional/social problems.
400
True or False: If someone in your family has a mental illness, you are more likely to develop one as well.
True. -> It's not set in stone, but genetics are a risk factor for mental illness so if someone in your family has a mental illness, you are at a greater risk for mental illness.
400
The __________ community has the highest annual prevalence of mental illness in the US.
LGBTQ at 37.4% -> with the second highest being mixed/multiracial at 26.8%
400
__________ causes repetitive, unwanted, intrusive thoughts, and irrational, excessive urges to do certain actions.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
400
__________ in adolescents can be difficult to notice since early symptoms are similar to typical teenage behavior like withdrawing from their friends and family, having trouble sleeping, and become irritable or depressed. Teens are less likely to have delusions but are more likely to have visual hallucinations compared to adults with this disorder.
Schizophrenia
400
Childhood trauma affects not only your _______ health but your _______ health as well.
mental; physical/medical -> Toxic stress caused by ACEs can alter short and long term health as it effects the body as a whole. It can damage the structure and function of children's brains and ACEs have even been linked to auto immune diseases such as arthritis, heart disease, and even some cancers. They have also been known to alter how the body's DNA functions which can be passed through generations.
500
True or False: Males attempt suicide more often than females do.
False. -> Females actually attempt suicide 4 times more often than males do. HOWEVER, males do have a higher death by suicide rate due to the fact that males tend to use more violent methods with their attempts.
500
The average delay between onset symptoms of mental illness and treatment ___ year(s).
11
500
_________ is the result of traumatic events such as military combat, assault, an accident, or a natural disaster.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
500
___________ can cause a person to have shifts in their self-image resulting in feeling good about themselves one day to thinking they're evil the next, they may struggle with paranoia or suspicious thoughts about others motives, they may have a fear of being abandoned, and commonly have unstable relationships.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
500
One characteristic/trait that has proven to significantly decrease the negative impacts that ACEs can have on children (short- and long-term) is ___________.
Resiliency -> ACEs scientists know that the brain is plastic and ultimately wants to heal itself. They believe this can be done through integrating trauma-informed and resilience-building practices into homes, schools, businesses, etc. An example of this practice looks at how teens with high ACE scores can heal their brain with cognitive behavior therapy and how schools who have integrated trauma-informed and resilience-building practices have raised their students test scores, and graduation rates.