Facts About Acadia
Coping Skills/Self-Care
True or False
Mental Health Vocab
Riddles
100

This is the time period in which the day treatment program runs.

What is 8:00am - 3:45pm?

100

These are three ways that one can practice self-care.

What is _____, _____, and _____?

(Any three self-care activities will be accepted)

100

True or False: For someone suffering from mental health problems, their symptoms are not always visible and detectable by others.

What is true?

100

_____ is acknowledging that someone is feeling a certain emotion or feeling concern for that other person, whereas _____ is putting yourself in their shoes and feeling that emotion with them.

What is sympathy, empathy?

100

This is something you can catch, but you cannot throw.

What is a cold?

200

This is the number of floors that the patient building has at Acadia Hospital.

What is three?

200

Deep breathing is a coping skill that one is typically encouraged to use when feeling this emotion.

What is Anger or Anxiety?

200

True or False: Mental health treatment is not effective.

What is false?

(There are hundreds of studies that state that individuals suffering from mental health issues who seek treatment show significant improvements in the management of their symptoms.)

200

These are positive statements that can help you to challenge and overcome self-sabotaging and negative thoughts.

What are positive affirmations?

200

This word contains 26 letters, but only three syllables.

What is alphabet? 

300

This is the name of a psych tech/clinician working today who is not assigned to Group A.

Who is _____?

300

High school students should be getting approximately this many hours of sleep per night.

What is 8-10 hours?

300

True or False: People with mental health problems are more likely to be violent.

What is false?

(People suffering from mental health problems are no more likely than the general population to engage in violence. In fact, only 3-5% of violent acts are can be attributed to individuals living with a serious mental illness.)

300

This is a stimulus (sight, sound, smell, etc.) that produces a negative emotional response, often associated with a past traumatic experience or event.

What is a trigger?

300

This thing disappears the moment you say its name.

What is silence?

400

This is the name of one nurse who is working in day treatment today.

Who is _____?

400

Teens should be spending at minimum, this many minutes per day exercising.

What is 60 minutes?

400

True or False: People of certain races are more prone to mental illness than others.

What is false?

(All races and ethnicities are affected by mental illness at the same rate.)

400

This is the definition of the emotion iceberg.

What is the concept that we only show 10% of what we really feel/are going through?

400

This item is made of water, but if you put it into water it will die.

What is an ice cube?

500

This is the official address of Acadia Hospital.

What is 268 Stillwater Ave. Bangor, ME?

(will accept just Stillwater Ave.)

500

To earn 500 points, each team member must name an emotion and 3 coping skills that can be used to deal with that emotion. Each team member's coping skills and emotion must be different.

Emotion: _____

Coping Skills: _____, _____, and _____.

(Any emotion/coping skill will be accepted, as long as each team member's answers differ.)

500

True or False: 1 in 4 Maine youth aged 6-17 will experience a diagnosable mental health issue in a given year.

What is true?

(Maine youth have a higher rate of mental health issues compared to the national average of 1 in 6.)

500

This is a practice in which an individual uses mindfulness and deep breathing to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.

What is meditation?

500

This has no doors but it has keys, it has no rooms but it does have a space, and you can enter but you can never leave.

What is a keyboard?