Therapy
This is a form of treatment that is aimed at relieving emotional distress and mental health problems.
What is therapy
Make a smile, or an excited or content face.
If someone is feeling totally at peace or serene, such as when they are walking in the woods or reading a good book, they are likely feeling what level of distress? (Low, medium, high)
What is a low level of distress
Tell me about a time when you were feeling very angry.
What if you accidentally hurt someone else's feelings? What should you do next?
What is apologize or say I'm sorry
What type of therapy would you seek if you are looking for help with frustration tolerance?
Your therapist commends you for all of the hard work that you've been putting in in individual therapy. How would you feel?
What is happy, proud, or excited.
True or false: Experiencing an emotion can allow for the emotion to be processed, and allows it time to lessen in intensity.
What is true
Tell me about a time when you experienced a lot of anxiety.
In what part of your body did you feel it?
What if you see that someone is upset, is there anything that you can do to help?
What is be nice to them, give them space, compliment them, listen to them, try and make them feel better?
This type of therapy (Initials T.F.) has goals of helping individual's who's mental health is shaped by traumatic experiences.
What is trauma-focused therapy
This feeling falls under the category of sadness, and is often associated with hopelessness.
What is depression
If an individual is terror-stricken, in a state of panic, and feeling extreme bodily tension, they are likely to be experiencing what level of distress? (low, medium, high)
What is a high level of distress
Tell me about a time during your military career when you felt afraid.
Give us three examples of how you knew you were afraid.
What if you're in a group of people, and you start to feel annoyed or upset, what can you do?
This is a type of therapy that helps people learn how to identify and change destructive thought patterns that have a negative influence on behavior and emotions.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
What is a feeling that is often associated with anger?
What is hurt, hostile, frustrated, irritated, furious, or devastated? (Hateful, critical, resentful, disgusted, betrayed, bitter.)
True or false: Avoiding emotions keeps them from being processed, which may lessen the intensity of these emotions.
What is false.
Tell me three symptoms related to severe depression.
What are depressed mood (sadness), Anhedonia (diminished interest or pleasure in activities), significant weight loss/gain, insomnia/hypersomnia, psychomotor agitation/retardation, fatigue/loss of energy, feeling of worthlessness/ guilt, difficulty thinking/concentrating, Suicidal ideation/attempt.
What if you start to feel depressed or sad, and you can't figure out why?
What is talk to someone, talk to a therapist, reflect on your experience through journaling or thinking, exercise, (any positive coping skill).
In this type of therapy, one explores the connection between their unconscious mind and their actions. Emphasis is often placed on one's childhood or past, along with any recurring dreams or fantasies that one may have.
What is psychodynamic or psychoanalytic therapy
What is a feeling that is often associated with joy?
What is playful, curious, creative, sensuous, cheerful, or hopeful? (stimulating, daring, imaginative, alive, light-hearted, optimistic)
If someone is experiencing unpleasant feelings and/or substantial bodily tension such as a headache or upset stomach, but it is still tolerable, they are likely to be experiencing what level of distress? (low, medium, high)
What is a medium/moderate level of distress
Tell me about one of the most memorable days of your life.`
Why this memory?
What if you see someone who is falling asleep at their desk, and they have dark circles under their eyes and they continue to yawn. What feeling do you think they are experiencing?
What is tired or exhausted.