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Aggression
Consists of behavior and/or verbal comments that are hostile, deliberately offensive, forceful in nature, or meant to incite anger. This type of behavior goes beyond assertiveness and is often exhibited by persons who are frustrated or perceive themselves as having been treated unjustly or inadequately.
Art Therapy
This is a type of therapy that integrates artistic expression with mental health interventions to aid individuals in adjustment and coping challenges.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
According to this form of therapy, once individuals become conscious of their own thoughts and behaviors and the attitudes, beliefs, and values underlying those thoughts and behaviors, they can make positive changes to each with the assistance of a trained therapist.
Conduct Disorder
Diagnosis that consists of a repetitive and persistent tendency to violate the basic rights of others or norms and rules of society. This disorder is a childhood disorder that often precedes the diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder in adults.
Depression
A disorder with feelings of being dejected and uninterested in committing to any particular action. A deflated sense of self, listlessness, low initiative, and other signs of unhappiness and a lack of caring characterize this.
Drug Courts
Courts that attempt to prevent children and adults from continuing deviant drug-using behaviors. These courts aim to stop the abuse of alcohol and other drugs through the use of intensive therapeutic supervision.
Family Therapy Interventions
Therapeutic approaches that focus on addressing issues related to behavioral problems, mental health issues, and other at-risk behaviors associated with youth in the justice system.
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Consists of impulsive (or anger-based) aggressive outbursts that have a rapid onset and, typically, little or no prodromal period. Outbursts typically last for less than 30 minutes and commonly occur in response to a minor provocation by a close intimate or associate.
Major Depressive Disorder
Ongoing depression with clinically significant distress or some interference in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning, characterized by one or more major depressive episodes (i.e., at least 2 weeks of depressed mood or loss of interest accompanied by at least four additional symptoms of depression).
Mental Health Court
Problem-solving court that combines community mental health treatment with judicial supervision and support.
Moral
The process of making correct, prosocial decisions about behavior.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
A disorder with frequent and persistent patterns of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
When an individual exhibits arousal and reactivity symptoms such as heightened startle reactions, irritability or aggression, hypervigilance, risky or destructive behavior, as well as difficulty concentrating or sleeping, after being exposed to the death of another, threatened death to self or others, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violence. This can occur through direct exposure, witnessing the traumatic event, or indirect exposure to aversive details, such as seeing photos or hearing about specific actions involved.
Reconation
A term that refers to a person's reevaluation of personal decisions that have been made in life.
Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to treatment (SBIRT)
An evidence-based practice used to identify, reduce, and prevent problematic use, abuse, and dependence on alcohol and illicit drugs.
Self-Efficacy
An individual's own belief about their ability to successfully accomplish certain desired goals and/or behaviors.
Sublimation
When a person has pent-up frustration, stress, and/or aggressive feelings and they channel those feelings toward some activity or pursuit that allows them to act on those feelings in a manner that is considered socially acceptable
Three E's of Trauma
The experience of trauma can be described through events, experiences, and effects. Events include abuse (physical, emotional, sexual); domestic or community violence; an accident or natural disaster; and war on terrorism. Experiences are subjective and difficult to measure because they relate to how someone reacts to an event. Effects are the reactions a person has to an event and the ways an experience changes or alter that person's ongoing and future behavior
Trauma-Informed Care
Interventions designed to address disturbing and debilitating thoughts or memories (the effects) that occur due to prior incidents (the event or events) that have been survived or observed (the experience).
Vaping
Refers to the use of electronic cigarettes using vapors from different substances that either have no nicotine or low levels of nicotine.