Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Daniel Woodbury, Michael Portugal, Paulo Cabrera
COMMON STRESSORS EXPERIENCED BY TEENS
- Different learning styles, interests & strengths
- Strict structure and curriculum
- Unrealistic expectations
- Stressed parents = stressed children
- Peer pressure
- Struggle to conform
DEVELOPMENT OF TREATMENT
DEVELOPMENT OF TREATMENT
- Greater understanding of phsychological and medicational treaments
- Establishment of community support programs to reduce isolation and promote social inclusion
- Development of treatment - moved away from mental assylums, malarial infections and insulin induced comas
- Greater understanding of the impacts of mental health on individuals, families and communities
- Neurophsyciatric disorder characterized by phonic (vocal) and motor (movement) tics
- Inherited disorder that initially occurs during childhood
TOURETTE'S
- Genetics (Parents with tourette's have a 50% chance of passing it on to their children
- Environment (Cannot cause but can worsen)
- Defects in basal ganglia, thalamus, frontal cortex, subcortical and cortical regions
- Motor tics (Sudden repetitive, non-rythmic body movements
- Phonic tics (Sudden utterances and involuntary sounds)
- 3.8% chance in children
- Pharmacologic therapy can reduce tics
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Habit reversal
- Teaching parents and guardians to control mind and behaviour to prevent tics
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Unwanted memories of traumatic events
PTSD
- Traumatic event which threatned their life or safety or that of the others around them
- Examples could include war, torture, accidents, bushfires or floods
12% of Australians will experience PTSD
- Reliving a traumatic event through unwanted, vivid images and memories
- Being overly alert
- Avoiding reminders of the event (place, people, things)
- Feeling emotionally numb
- Prolonged exposure (Gains control over negative feelings)
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (Reframing negative thoughts)
- Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (Helps process and make sense of the trauma)
- Regular feelings of extreme highs and extreme lows
- Takes the form of euphoric mania or depression
Bi-Polar
- Heredity (Blood-relative)
- Chronic stress
- Significant life changes
- Substance abuse
- One in 50 Australians experience it each year
- Inability to sleep
- Agitation
- Intense expression
- Rapid thoughts and speech
- Paranoia
- Neglecting to eat
- Seeing code
- Binge drinking
- Grand and unrealistic champs
- Mood stabilising medications
- Antidepressants
- Sedatives
- Counselling
- Community support programs
- Self-help groups