Mental Health
The leading cause to disability worldwide (2019)
What is mental health (specifically depression)
These skills are mostly physical techniques that use different body senses. They are meant to be used when you are feeling distressed, when emotions feel overwhelming, or when situations feel like you can’t stand them any more. Instead of doing something that hurts you, try something that gives you pleasure and comfort.
What are self-soothing techniques
Name some!
Suicide and Crisis Lifeline number
9-8-8
This is a type of psychotherapeutic treatment that helps people learn how to identify and change destructive or disturbing thought patterns that have a negative influence on behavior and emotions.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
One in __ American adults experienced a mental health issue
What is 5
Identify two factors that can lead to mental illness
-Traumatic life experiences
-Genetics
-Physical injury/illness
-Environment
(Therapist may accept other ideas)
This is the acceptance that you are part of a world greater than yourself. It is having a sense of your connection to the universe. Practicing this is bringing an openness to the world, a promise that you will take on whatever comes with grace. This encourages you to focus on effectiveness or doing what is needed according to your Wise Mind.
What is willingness
This is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. Started in 1979.
What is the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
These are designed to test the validity of our thoughts. Actually recording our thoughts provides a way for us to evaluate the evidence for or against a particular way of thinking – essentially, is it true or not true based on the situation?
What are thought logs/thought records
Identify how stress can be BENEFICIAL
(therapist discretion)
Ideas may include: can increase motivation for reaching goals, can increase performance for sports, etc.
Working with depressed individuals to gradually decrease their avoidance and isolation and increase their engagement in activities that have been shown to improve mood. Many times, this includes activities that they enjoyed before becoming depressed
What is Behavioral Activation
This is a technique for changing painful emotions. The idea behind this is that it can help you deal with distressing emotions by setting into motion an action that is helpful instead of harmful. Doing this counteracts the suffering you might otherwise feel because of the distressing emotion and prevents you from doing something harmful.
What is opposite action
This program has over 20 different locations with levels of care including: residential, inpatient, PHP, and IOP. Founded in 1907
What is Rogers Behavioral Health
This is the act of replacing negative thoughts with positive ones as soon as the negative thought occurs.
What is reframing
Besides medication and treatment/therapy, identify at least two other activities that can increase mood and decrease mental health symptoms.
(Therapist discretion)
Examples: balanced diet, exercise, reaching out to support system, attending peer-support groups, etc.
50% of mental health symptoms start at this age
What is 14
Differences between accumulating positives in short-term and accumulating positives in long-term.
Accumulating positives in short-term: it's about filling your "emotional fuel tank" in the moment. Doing enjoyable activities that make you feel good (HEALTHY activities)
Accumulating positives in the long-term: it's about living your VALUES. Living a life worth living. Volunteering at an animal shelter, spending more time with family, etc.
Created circa 2006: "Founder, Jamie Tworkowski, didn’t set out to start a nonprofit organization. All he wanted to do was help a friend and tell her story. When Jamie met Renee Yohe, she was struggling with addiction, depression, self-injury, and suicidal thoughts. He wrote about the five days he spent with her before she entered a treatment center"
What is: To Write Love on Her Arms
This technique is writing down your moods and thoughts, which includes the time of the mood, source of it, the intensity of the mood, and how you react with it. It helps you to understand your thought pattern and emotional tendencies. This technique can be broad.
What is journaling
True/False: Individuals living with serious mental illness face an increased risk of having chronic medical conditions.
True! Identify some chronic medical conditions that can be related to mental health
Suicide accounts for 1 in ___ deaths globally. Suicide is the ___ leading cause of death in individuals aged 15-29 years.
What is 100
What is the 4th
DEAR-MAN and why we use it
We use DEARMAN to increase likelihood that we will obtain something we are asking of someone else. Is it asking our partner to do the dishes? Asking someone for more support?
This is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation. Their mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.
What is: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
This technique teaches you to relax a group of body muscles at a time. Thus it makes you relax your whole body muscle.
What is Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR)/Deep Muscle Relaxation (DMR)
The average delay between symptom onset and treatment for mental illness is __ years.
What is 11