Young Adults (18-24)

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Masters of Social Work, Social Work, New York University

Bachelors of Social Work, Social Work, Monmouth University

Depression often causes people to feel sad, empty, or hopeless, and can cause a lack of interest in life. It can also affect a person's thinking patterns and physical health.

Depression

Refers relationship issues with a partner or spouse. Can include issues related to relationship distress, relationship satisfaction, communication, intimacy, etc.

Relationship Issues

Grief is a reaction to an emotionally significant loss and often comes with symptoms of depression or anxiety. These symptoms can remain intense and last for a long time after a loss, making it difficult to move forward with a healthy lifestyle.

Loss/Grief

Self-esteem is the degree to which a person feels confident, valuable, and worthy of respect. Feeling low self-esteem can influence overall well-being and be linked to anxiety and/or depression.

Self-Esteem

ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) causes a hard time focusing attention and controlling restless or impulsive behavior. People with ADHD might have emotional outbursts, be forgetful, and/or find it difficult to stay organized.

ADHD

It's normal to experience anger at times, but for some, it becomes so frequent, intense, or difficult to control that it negatively affects their life. Anger management is a structured therapeutic approach toward reducing one’s anger to a point where more appropriate coping and/or conflict management skills are used. Beliefs and thoughts leading toward anger outbursts are explored while healthy coping and interpersonal skills are put into practice.

Anger management

Children that experience parents and/or guardians that are avoidant, ambivalent, or resistant from an early age, may develop attachment issues. This can manifest as difficulty forming or maintaining friendships, romantic relationships and empathetic bonds throughout life, as well as other issues.

Attachment issues

A developmental disability that impacts communication and behavior. Onset typically occurs during early childhood, but an individual may be diagnosed at any point in life. Severity of the disorder varies along a spectrum. Accordingly, challenges associated with verbal and nonverbal communication, interpersonal interactions, and restricted/repetitive behaviors vary as well.

Autism spectrum disorder

An ongoing effort to harm someone, physically or emotionally, based on perceived weakness. Commonly associated with childhood but can occur at any age. Could also take the form of sexual harassment or gossip.

Bullying

Source of communication challenges in circumstances and relationships that can have a negative impact on mental health. Misunderstandings and misinterpretations often lead to arguments in personal, platonic, or professional relationships.

Communication issues

Familial relationships can be the source of stress and emotional pain, even in the healthiest of situations. Painful interactions can range from irritation to resentment and lead to feelings of guilt, disappointment, and anger.

Family issues

Type of developmental disorder usually identified in childhood affecting a person’s ability to process and understand information. Typically impacts a specific learning area such as reading, writing, or math, and creates a challenging learning environment.

Learning disabilities

Process designed to equip people with tools, motivation, and inspiration necessary to make positive change and maximize personal and professional potential. Life coaches are generally helpful during life transitions or for goal setting and completion.

Life coaching

Oppositional and defiant behavior is often spiteful and vindictive. It is done as a means of acting out against authority. Such behavior is typical on occasion and during stressful situations but may ultimately develop into one’s personality throughout childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Common disorders include oppositional defiant disorder in children and anti-social personality disorder in adults.

Oppositional & defiant behavior

Panic attacks are acute conditions in which one experiences an intense bout of anxiety out of seemingly nowhere. This oftentimes stems from a perceived rather than actual threat. Symptoms may include heart palpitations, sweating, trembling, and shortness of breath. Panic disorder involves regular frequency of panic attacks (two or more) with a fear of experiencing more in the future.

Panic attacks & panic disorder

Self-harm entails any action undertaken to intentionally bring harm upon oneself. It oftentimes serves as a maladaptive coping mechanism for emotional distress. Common actions taken include cutting, burning, picking, scratching, intentionally overdosing on substances, and other reckless behavior.

Self Harm

Sexual harassment is more verbal in nature and entails offensive sexual remarks, unwelcome advances, and/or requests for sexual pleasantries. Sexual assault involves the action of any sexual behavior or contact that occurs without explicit consent or against the wishes of another. Both are unlawful and may lead toward potentially severe psychological distress.

Sexual Harassment & Assault

Suicidal ideation may occur passively or become something in which one devises a plan, means, and intent to act. For some it may occur infrequently, perhaps after a tragic event. For others, it is frequent—occurring weekly or daily. Oftentimes these individuals experience ongoing struggles with mental health. Whenever one experiences suicidal ideation, it is recommended to speak with someone immediately.

Suicidal ideation

Behavioral disorders involve a pattern of disruptive behaviors that cause problems in school, at home, and in social situations. Can include hyperactivity, impulsivity, defiant behavior, chronic patterns of aggression, defiance, disruption, and/or hostility.

Behavioral Issues

Coping skills are tools and techniques one can learn, practice, and use to handle difficult emotions, decrease stress, and establish or maintain a sense of internal order.

Coping Skills

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Psychotherapy focused on the interaction between thought and behavior. Examines negative thought patterns with the goal of changing responses to negative stimuli. Often used to treat depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

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Psychoanalysis

Form of positive psychotherapy focusing on internal strengths rather than shortcomings. The goal is to help someone build upon their best qualities and adjust to a more resilient mindset through the exploration of pre-existing strength.

Strength Based Therapy

Form of psychotherapy employed to help individual family members resolve problems within the context of the entire family. Used to help them understand patterns of interaction and develop new ways of engaging with each other.

Family Systems Therapy

Modified form of cognitive therapy that reveals thought patterns that prevail during depressive episodes and teaches new ones to ease emotional pain and maintain wellness. Implements practices like meditation and breathing exercises.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

Form of counseling that helps people resolve ambivalence and insecurity into the motivation to meet specific goals like sobriety. Utilizes collaborative conversation, recognizing how difficult change can be while fostering an atmosphere of acceptance.

Motivational Interviewing

Focuses on traits, thoughts, behaviors, and experiences that can improve the quality of someone's daily life. Goal is to center on positive experiences like optimism, creativity, and resilience, giving balance to the therapeutic process.

Positive Psychology

In-depth talk-therapy based on understanding the impact of the unconscious mind on a person’s thoughts and behaviors. Goal is to bring repressed memories or emotions to the surface and examine them.

Psychoanalytic Therapy

Similar to psychoanalytic therapy — a form of in-depth talk-therapy — but less focused on the person’s relationship with the therapist. Usually involves less sessions and at a lower rate of frequency.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Guided conversational approach to helping people solve problems and reduce suffering by concentrating on the present and desired future. Coaching and questioning is intended to lead people to next steps using skills they innately possess.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

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Anxiety can mean nervousness, worry, or self-doubt. Anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder that entails excessive, repeated bouts of worry, anxiety, and/or fear.

Anxiety

Adolescent mental health focuses on adolescent-specific experiences including physical and cognitive development, social and environmental factors, sex, sexual identification and orientation, emotional processing, and substance use. Given the influence that parents/guardians have on adolescents, home life is a particularly important consideration.

Adolescent mental health

Children can be impacted by things like anxiety, depression, ADHD and more. However, they can be difficult to identify because kids aren’t always able to communicate effectively. Untreated, child mental health issues can have long-term effects.

Child mental health

Issues arising from being in a new environment or away from home for the first time. College-aged kids have the highest rates of mental illness, suffering things like stress, anxiety, depression, learning disabilities, and substance abuse.

College & graduate student issues

Trauma is the result of experiencing a perceived, extremely distressful event. Although the stress threshold for each person differs, meaning that each person considers and experiences trauma differently, it is an event that tops one’s threshold. It exceeds one’s ability to cope or emotionally process. Symptoms may include shock, anxiety, confusion, hopelessness, feeling disconnected, mood swings, nightmares, and intrusive thoughts.

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