Mental Health Terms
This is the term used to describe the negative attitudes people may face due to mental illness.
What is stigma?
Name the attachment styles
Secure, Anxious, Avoidant, Anxious-Avoidant (disorganized)
Name some things that could contribute to mental health worsening?
substance use, grief or loss of a loved one, loss of roles (losing job), self isolation, etc etc.
Whare are examples of circle of influence for youth?
Social media, family, peers
Expressing good things from your day is a coping strategy known as ________
What is Gratitude?
What is the stranger study? briefly describe
Coined by Mary Ainsworth, stranger study looks into attachment theory between child and caregiver.
What are some reasons people wouldn't seek help for their mental health?
Stigma, lack of accessible resources, mistrust in the medical system, cultural ideologies
What are some signs that a child could be diagnosed with ADHD?
Hyperactive - can't sit still, often on the go
Inattentive - day dreaming, forgetful
Define self-care and coping skills.
Self-care is any deliberate or healthy activity that provides holistic nourishment (i.e., mentally, physically, emotionally).
Coping skills are strategies and behaviors that we utilize to manage emotions and stressful circumstances that can be both adaptive and maladaptive.
What are the stages of grief?
What is Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance?
How do childhood ACES affect adulthood?
People who have experience ACES are more likely to develop mental or physical health problems later in life.
Name some of the childhood ACES?
What does the DBT skill ACCEPTS stand for?
Activities
Contributing
Comparisons
Emotions
Push Away
Thoughts
Sensations
Name one theory of adolescent development.
Freud/Erikson/Piaget
What are the 4 horseman and their antidotes?
Criticism - gentle start up, defensiveness - take responsibility, contempt - share fondness and admiration, stone walling - use self soothing.
What is Maslows' Hierarchy? and how would it affect counselling with youth?
When basic needs are not met, we can't move on to higher goals.
If a youth was homeless, it wouldn't be the time to work on their anxiety, they are probably anxious because they are homeless.
What is the term for two people who are enmeshed in every aspect of their lives and are always together?
What is codependency?
What are the four ways our bodies respond to threat?
What is flight, fight, freeze and fawn? (Flop also can be included)
whose retirement party is on July 22nd at 5:01pm
Linda Thauberger!
How would you explain CBT therapy to a youth or adolescent? Give an example of CBT you would use.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is the idea that thoughts affect emotions which can affect actions.
While driving, you get cut off in traffic, instead of being angry that this person has done this, trying to be compassionate and thinking "Maybe they are having an emergency"