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What month is Mental Health Awareness month?
May
A feeling of persistent, excessive fear or worry in situations that may or may not be threatening.
Anxiety Disorders
Meaning-focused ways to derive and manage difficult emotions.
Coping Skills
Licensed medical doctors who have completed psychiatric training
This state is the only state that has one syllable.
Maine
What mental health disorder is the most prevalent among adults in the U.S.?
Anxiety Disorders
Causes dramatic shifts in a person's mood, energy and ability to think clearly. Individuals often experience extreme high and low moods.
Bipolar Disorder
Influence the brain chemicals that regulate emotions and thought patterns.
Medication
Utilizes recreation and other activity-based interventions to address the assessed needs of individuals with illnesses and/or disabling conditions, as a means to psychological and physical health, recovery and well-being.
Activity Therapist/ Recreational Therapist
Where is a shrimp's heart located?
_______ is the 2nd leading cause of death among people aged 10-34.
Suicide
Involves persistent, intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors that a person feels driven to perform in response to those thoughts.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
A form of animal-assisted therapy that teaches individuals how to groom, care for and ride horses to improve emotional and behavioral outcomes.
Equine Therapy
Provide case management, inpatient discharge planning services, placement services and other services to support healthy living.
Social Worker/Case Worker
What is the average amount of time most people fall asleep after closing their eyes?
7 minutes
18% of U.S. adults with a mental illness also have what disorder?
Substance use disorder
Characterized by a pattern of instability in emotions, interpersonal relationships and self-image. May also struggle with impulsivity and self-harming behaviors.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Includes education for family and friends where they learn things like coping strategies, problem-solving skills and how to recognize the signs of relapse
Psychoeducation
Hold a doctoral degree in clinical psychology or another specialty. They are trained to evaluate a person’s mental health using clinical interviews, psychological evaluations and testing.
Psychologist
The unicorn is the national animal of where?
Scotland
50% of all lifetime illness begins by the age of ____?
14 years old
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
Procedure where controlled electric currents are passed through the brain resulting in a brief, controlled seizure that affects neurons and chemicals in the brain.
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Assess, diagnose, and treat individuals and families with psychiatric disorders or the potential for such disorders using therapeutic skills, including the prescription of medication and administration of psychotherapy.
It is physically impossible for this animal to look up to the sky.
Pigs