Mental Health Services

Mental Health Services

Allied Health

What is Mental Health?

• Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.

• It affects how we think, feel, and act.

• It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.

• Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.

Factors That Influence Mental Health:

• Many factors contribute to mental health problems, including:

• Biological factors such as genes or brain chemistry

• Family history of mental health problems

• Life experiences such as trauma or abuse

Multiple Choice

Alice's mother suffers from bipolar disorder. This puts Alice at risk of developing bipolar disorder in the future due to her family history. Which type of factor would this be considered?

• family history

• biological factors

• life experience

Multiple Choice

James grew up in an abusive household. He suffers from anxiety & depression due to his childhood trauma. Which type of factor would this be considered?

• family history

• biological factors

• life experience

Warning Signs:

• Patients who experience one or more of the following feelings or behaviors may be struggling with mental health issues:

• Having low or no energy

• Feeling unusually confused, forgetful, on edge, angry, upset, worried, or scared

• Experiencing severe mood swings that cause problems in relationships

• Feeling helpless or hopeless

• Inability to perform daily tasks like getting to work or school

Multiple Select

Warning signs that someone may be struggling with their mental health include (choose all that apply):

• low energy

• feeling helpless

• feeling forgetful & confused

• being unable to complete normal tasks

Ways to Improve Mental Health:

• Seek professional help when needed

• Connect with others

• Engage in physical activity

• Get enough sleep

• Help others

• Develop healthy coping skills

Anxiety Disorders

• People with anxiety disorders respond to certain objects or situations with fear and dread.

• Anxiety disorders can include obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorders, and phobias.

Behavioral Disorders:

• Behavioral disorders involve a pattern of disruptive behaviors in children that last for at least 6 months.

• These disorders can cause problems in school, at home and in social situations.

• Examples of behavioral disorders include Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), Conduct Disorder, and Oppositional-Defiant Disorder (ODD).

Eating Disorders:

• Eating disorders involve extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors involving weight and food.

• Eating disorders can include anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating.

Mood Disorders:

• Mood disorders involve persistent feelings of sadness or periods of feeling overly happy, or fluctuating between extreme happiness and extreme sadness.

• Mood disorders can include depression, bipolar disorder, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and self-harm.

Multiple Choice

Samantha often has persistent feelings of sadness mixed with periods of feeling overly happy. Which type of disorder is she possibly suffering from?

• anxiety disorder

• mood disorder

• eating disorder

Other Disorders:

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) causes repeated, upsetting thoughts called obsessions. .

• People with OCD typically do the same thing over and over again to try to make the obsessive thoughts go away.

• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can occur after living through or seeing a traumatic event, such as war, a hurricane, rape, physical abuse or a bad accident.

• PTSD makes people feel stressed and afraid even after the danger is over.

Treatment Settings:

• Treatment and care for mental health-related issues are provided in a variety of settings.

• The environment and level or type of care, will depend on multiple factors including the nature and severity of the patient's mental condition, their physical health, and the type of treatment indicated.

• The three primary types of treatment settings for receiving mental health care or services are hospital inpatient, residential and outpatient settings.

Types of Treatment Facilities

• Hospital inpatient settings involve an overnight or longer stay in a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric unit of a general hospital. 

• Residential mental health treatment environments generally provide longer-term care for individuals.

• Outpatient Settings involve office visits with no overnight stay. 

• Partial hospitalization programs (PHPs) outpatient programs that patients attend for six or more hours a day, every day or most days of the week.

• Intensive outpatient programs (IOPs)  outpatient programs only attended for three to four hours and often meet during evening hours to accommodate people who are working.

Multiple Choice

Type of treatment setting where the patient stays overnight or longer in a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric unit of a general hospital.

• inpatient

• outpatient

Multiple Choice

Type of treatment setting that involves office visits with no overnight stay. Includes PHP's & IOP's.

• inpatient

• outpatient

Multiple Choice

Carl responds to certain objects or situations with fear and dread, especially large group settings. Which type of disorder is he possibly suffering from?

• anxiety disorder

• mood disorder

• eating disorder

Multiple Choice

Edward is a competitive bodybuilder & experiences extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors involving his weight and food. Which type of disorder is he possibly suffering from?

• anxiety disorder

• mood disorder

• eating disorder