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Title: Mental Health Unit


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Mental Health Unit
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DEFINE THE FOLLOWING
  • Mental Health
  • Wellness
  • Personality
  • Stereotype
  • Self-Esteem

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Mental Health
  • The ability to express emotions and deal with
    the demands of daily life.

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Wellness
  • The highest level of well-being achieved through
    lifestyle.
  • How you choose to live your life

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Personality
  • How you think, feel and behave. Your personality
    can change throughout your lifetime. How?

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Stereotype
  • Thinking that all members of a specific group
    have the same traits, attitudes, characteristics,
    etc.

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Self-Esteem
  • How much you value, respect, and feel confident
    you have about yourself.
  • If you feel loved, valued, and accepted by
    others, and you love, value, and accept yourself,
    your overall attitude and outlook will be good!

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LIFE STAGES
  • Teenage Years
  • (13-19)
  • Young Adulthood (20-40)
  • Middle Adulthood (40-65)
  • Late Adulthood (65-death)

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Teenage Years
  • Puberty PHYSICAL CHANGES marking the beginning
    the manhood/womanhood.
  • Girls 12 Boys 14
  • Adolescence Mental and social changes.
  • Three (3) Key Questions asked
  • Who am I?
  • What do I believe in?
  • Where am I going?

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Ms. Reinhardts AdolescentPhoto
Journeyps.please keep laughter to a minimum
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1st Grade
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2nd Grade
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4th grade
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5th grade
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6th grade
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7th grade
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8th grade
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9th grade
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10th grade
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11th grade
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THE PROGRESSION
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Who Am I?
  • Attempt to discover your identity
  • Grow through activities and people
  • Desire to belong

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Peer Groups
  • People of the same age range with similar
    interests

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What do I believe in?
  • Values
  • Beliefs, rules or guidelines you feel are
    important to live by.
  • Examples

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Where am I going?
  • Making your own choices and setting goals.

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Young Adulthood
                                                           
  • Go to college
  • Start careers
  • Reach emotional maturity
  • Make decisions and understand consequences
  • Marry/Family

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Middle Adulthood
  • Reflect on life choices
  • Physically change
  • Retirement
  • Confront death

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Late Adulthood
  • Some people experience a mental and/or physical
    breakdown.
  • Enjoy and relax family and friends
  • Confront death

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EMOTIONS
  • Signals that tell your mind body how to react.
    How you respond to these feelings can affect your
    level of wellness.

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LOVE
  • Strong affection, deep concern, and respect are
    expressions of love. Loving someone means you
    support the needs and growth of that person and
    respect the persons feelings and values.

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TYPES OF LOVE
  • Friendship loyalty
  • Family unconditional
  • Romantic passionate
  • Community pride

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Anger
  • A normal reaction to being emotionally hurt or
    physically harmed.
  • Anger can lead to violence.
  • Hostility is the intentional use of unfriendly
    or offensive behavior.

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Fear
  • The belief that someone or something is
    dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.
  • Some people let fear of imagined threats prevent
    them from taking healthful risks.

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  • Fear of the unknown
  • Fear of losing someone/something you have
  • Fear you cannot get what someone else has
  • An exaggerated, unrealistic fear

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Grief
  • A deep feeling of sorrow caused by the loss of
    something you cannot get back

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  • Denial refusing to believe it happened
  • Anger frustration over the loss
  • Bargaining Attempt to get it back
  • Depression Realizing you cant get it back
  • Acceptance accept the loss and moves on

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Happiness
  • A feeling
  • of contentment and
  • well-being

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Empathy
  • The ability to imagine and understand how
    someone else feels.

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TRIGGER___ FEELING___ RESPONSE__
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How to communicate your feelings101
  • I FEEL..
  • WHEN.
  • and I NEED

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STRESS VS STRESSOR
  • The bodys response to a physical or mental
    demand
  • Examples?
  • What caused the stress?
  • Examples?

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Life Situation Stressors
  • School Demands
  • Problems with friends
  • Bullying
  • Peer Pressure
  • Family problems
  • Abuse
  • Moving

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Environmental Stressors
  • Unsafe neighborhoods
  • Media
  • Natural Disasters
  • Threat of terrorist attack
  • War
  • Global Warming

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Biological Stressors
  • Changes in body
  • Illness
  • Injury
  • Disability

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Cognitive (Thinking)
  • Poor Self-esteem
  • Personal Appearance
  • Not fitting in
  • Exclusion

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Personal Behavior
  • Taking on a busy schedule
  • Relationship Issues
  • Smoking
  • Using alcohol or other drugs

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What causes us stress when returning to school?
  • 32 is schoolwork issues.
  • 30 social issues.
  • 25 physical appearance issues.
  • 3 extracurricular issues.
  • 10 no worries about returning to school.

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Eustress VS. Distress
  • Eustress is good stress with a positive result.
    Examples?
  • Distress is bad stress with a negative result.
    Examples?

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What is your STRESS SCORE?
  • Check out the stress checklist in your packet to
    see what causes most stress in your life. From
    there, we will discuss how to alleviate some of
    this built up stress!

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90/10 principal
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How can we beat STRESS!!
  • Get plenty of rest
  • Eat nutritious foods
  • Get regular exercise
  • Re-direct your energy
  • Practice relaxation techniques
  • And plenty, plenty more on your handouts!

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Depression
  • Prolonged feelings of helplessness, hopelessness
    and worthlessness

Suicide
The taking of ones own life intentionally. This
is a PERMANENT SOLUTION TO A TEMPORARY
PROBLEM!!!
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Psychosomatic Illness
  • A physical disorder caused by stress rather than
    a problem within the body.
  • It is mentally triggered with physical symptoms
  • Conversion Disorder

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Examples
  • Fatigue
  • Migraines/Headaches
  • Nausea/Vomiting
  • Overeating/Under eating
  • High Blood Pressure
  • Abrupt Movements
  • Ulcers
  • Jaw Clenching

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Mental Disorders
  • Each year approximately 57.7 million people in
    the United States are affected by some form of a
    mental disorder or illness.
  • This averages to be about
  • 1 in 4 Americans
  • Many DO NOT seek treatment because of the STIGMA
    surrounding mental disorders.
  • Stigma A mark of shame or disapproval that
    results in an individual being shunned or
    rejected by others.

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DSM-IV
  • Most mental illnesses are diagnosed by using The
    Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
    Disorders or DSM-IV.
  • This resource allows mental health professionals
    to diagnose based on 5 Axes.
  • Axis 1 includes most psychiatric disorders, mood
    disorders, anxiety disorders, and schizophrenia.
  • Axis 2 includes developmental disorders like
    personality disorders and autism.
  • Axis 3 includes physical conditions that can lead
    to disorders
  • Axis 4 includes psychosocial stressors that can
    impair mental and emotional functioning
  • Axis 5 includes how the other four axes affect a
    persons life.

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Mental Illness
  • An illness of the mind that can affect the
    thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person,
    preventing them from leading a happy, healthful,
    and productive life.
  • Divided into 2 categories
  • Organic and Functional

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Organic Disorders
  • Tumors
  • Drugs and alcohol diseases
  • High fevers
  • Accidents and falls
  • Phineas Gage
  • Chemical imbalances
  • Environmental factors
  • Physical birth defects
  • Identifiable brain malfunction

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Examples of Organic Disorders
  • Delirium
  • Hallucinations
  • Dementia
  • Alzheimers Disease
  • Jan's Story

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Mental RetardationI Q levels
  • Severe of profound Below 30
  • Trainable 30-50
  • Educable 50-75

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Savant
  • A rare condition in which a person may have a
    neurodevelopmental disorder or brain injury
    however, can demonstrate profound abilities that
    far exceed normal.
  • Daniel Tammet

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Functional Disorders
  • Mental disorders showing symptoms for which no
    physiological or anatomical cause can be
    identified
  • (not just physical reasons)

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Mood Disorders
  • Clinical Depression
  • Mania
  • Bi-Polar Disorder
  • Keeping Kids Healthy Bipolar Disorder in Children

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Anxiety Disorders
  • Panic Attacks
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • OCD

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Somatoform Disorders
  • There ARE physical symptoms with NO physical
    causes/reasons for the symptoms
  • Make themselves sick

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Personality Disorders
  • Anti-Social Personality Disorder
  • Antisocial Personality
    Disorder - The Low-Level Psychopath
  • Paranoid Personality Disorder
  • A person is convinced everyone is out to get them
  • Obsessive Personality Disorder

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Dissociative Disorders
  • A person dissociates from or has an
    interruption from their fundamental aspects of
    waking consciousness

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  • Amnesia Temporary loss of memory
  • Multiple Personality Disorder
  • (Dissociative Identity Disorder)
  • Multiple Personality Disorder Documentary
    YouTube
  • (3835-4700)

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SchizophreniaSplit MIND not split PERSONALITY
  • Hearing voices
  • Violent episodes
  • Paranoia
  • Poor hygiene
  • Irrational behavior
  • Break from reality

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TREATMENTS
  • Psychotherapy- dealing with problems through
    communication.
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Behavior Modification
  • Reward the Good
  • Dont Reward the Bad
  • Chemotherapy-using drugs or medications to
    balance brain chemicals.
  • Institutionalize/Hospitalization

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Psychotherapy Techniques
  • Play Therapy Use props and toys to communicate
  • Art Therapy Using different forms of art to
    communicate
  • Groups Therapy A number of people with similar
    problems offer support and advice to one another.
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