Mental Health Vocab
The ability to work through and recover from disappointment.
What is Resilience
What neurotransmitter is responsible for reward, motivation, and attention?
Dopamine
What is the term that refers to identifying risks of returning to substance use and identifying strategies to avoid it.
Relapse Prevention
What is/are the most effective form(s) of mental health treatment?
Medication compliance and therapy combined
TRUE or FALSE: all stress is bad.
False. Some stress can be motivating and is a natural reaction your body has to certain events. It can sometimes give us an "extra push". When stress becomes too much to handle, that might be an indication to start making some positive mental health changes
The ability to tune into your own thoughts, feelings, and actions
What is Self Awareness
Neurotransmitter responsible for feelings of contentment, calm, and relaxation
Serotonin
What substance led to the most deaths last year? (480,000)
Tobacco
How many people are diagnosed with a mental health condition at one time?
Approximately 1/4 (26%)
A measure of how much you like and respect yourself.
What is Self Esteem
This is a therapeutic technique where you focus your awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.
What is mindfulness
A sudden, overpowering fright response or feeling of terror for no known reason is an example of this.
What is a Panic Attack?
Describe the difference between substance USE, substance ABUSE, substance MISUSE, and substance DEPENDANCE
Substance use (simply using a substance), substance abuse (using an unhealthy amount of a substance), substance misuse (using substances outside of their intended purpose), substance dependance (depending on a substance physically or psychologically)
Name the difference between residential treatment, PHP, and IOP
Residential is around-the-clock treatment within a facility, PHP (Partial hospitalization) is approximately 6 hours/day 5 days a week (but you go home), and IOP (intensive outpatient) is anything less than 6 hours/day.
Expressing things you appreciate from your day/life is a coping strategy known as ________
Gratitude, or being grateful
What does C.B.T. stand for?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
A hormone that prepares the body to respond to stress.
What is Adrenaline
Term that refers to the presence of a mental health disorder and a substance abuse disorder in the same individual.
What is a Dual Diagnosis or Co-Occurring Disorders
What is the suicide and crisis national hotline?
988
Call or Text
The act of expressing positive things about yourself, your character, and optimism.
What are the stages of grief
Denial, bargaining, anger, depression, acceptance
What is the CBT triangle?
Thoughts, feelings, and behavior
What are the two categories of triggers?
External (People, places & things) and internal (Thoughts, feelings, and emotions)
A negative opinion about a group of people. Also a reason people are hesitant to seek help.
What is a Stigma
What does ACT stand for?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
A term in CBT that refers to self-defeating thoughts
Cognitive Distortions
What does D.B.T stand for?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
What are the 3 stages of relapse?
Emotional, mental, and physical
What is the organization that provides the MOST resources for mental health and/or substance use
SAMSHA (Substance abuse and mental health administration)
What are the names of positive stress and negative stress?
Eustress and Distress