Mental Health Careers
What profession is held by someone who has personally lived through an experience and uses their own knowledge to help others?
Category of mental disorders where people experience stress, fear, worry, and uneasiness frequently.
What are anxiety disorders? (Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, etc.)
One in ? U.S. adults experience mental illness each year?
What is 1 in 5?
Women are twice as likely to suffer from major depression than men.
What is true?
What is the study of fruit?
What is Pomology?
What profession gives therapy, as well as focuses on assessment, diagnosis, treatment plans, and prevention?
What is a Social Worker?
Category of mental disorders where people experience persistent and severe moods that disrupt their daily lives.
What are mood disorders? (Bipolar Disorder, major depression, Substance-induced mood disorder, etc.)
What percentage of all lifetime mental illness begins by the age of 14?
What is 50%; 75% by the age of 24?
Mental illness is a form of brain damage.
What is false?
Apples, peaches, and raspberries are all members of what family?
What is the rose family?
What profession can diagnose and treat mental and emotional illnesses, as well as prescribe the necessary medication?
What is a Psychiatrist?
Category of mental disorders where people are unable to determine what is reality and what is imagined.
What are psychotic disorders? (Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Delusional Disorder, etc.)
What is the average delay between the onset of mental illness symptoms and treatment?
What is 11 years?
People are born with a mental illness.
What is false?
What is a pineapple classified as?
What is a berry?
What profession diagnoses and offers therapy services to those that struggle with alcohol and drug abuse?
What is a Substance Abuse Counselors?
Category of mental disorders where people see a decline in their cognitive abilities, which ultimately impairs their daily life and ability to function independently.
What is Dementia? (Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, etc.)
If you identify with this population, you are 4x more likely to attempt suicide.
What is the lesbian, gay, or bisexual population?
Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time.
What is true? (Example: depression tends to occur with anxiety disorders or substance abuse)
Other than a fruit, what else can a banana be classified as?
What is an herb?
What profession identifies problems, diagnoses patients, and creates a plan to work through their determined issues during counseling sessions?
What is a Clinical Psychologist?
Category of mental disorders where people experience an obsession over body weight, body shape, and food.
What are eating disorders? (Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, etc.)
The percentage of people who are male that die by suicide is over or under 75%?
What is over (78%)?
Mental illness is treatable and suicide is preventable.
What is true?
Red-colored fruits keep what organ strong in the body?
What is the heart?