MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
UPDATED STUDY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔How to talk to someone who is suicidal - ✔✔Of the person know you're concerned
and willing to help
Discuss your observations with the person
Ask questions without dread
Don't express negative judgment
Be confident
✔✔Keeping the person safe - ✔✔Provide a safety contact number
Help the person identify past supports
Involve them in decision-making
Do not leave them alone
Do not guilt or threaten them to prevent suicide
Do not agree to keep their plan a secret
✔✔Reasons for self injury - ✔✔To escape unbearable anguish
Change behavior of others
Escape situation
Show desperation to others
Get back in other people
Getting relief from tension
Seek help
✔✔How to help a person who self injures - ✔✔Recognize itself injury usually a symptom
of serious psychological distress
Avoid any negative reactions to the self-injury
Discuss the situation calmly
Focus on ways to help the distress
Do not focus on stopping self-injury
Do not trailize the feelings or situations
Do not punish the person
John threatened withdrawal care
Do not compromise officer safety trying to disarm subject
✔✔Listening non-judge mental - ✔✔Give him a feeling of acceptance, Genuineness,
and empathy
Nonverbal skills to show are:
Attentiveness
Comfortable eye contact
Open body posture
Being seated
Sitting next to the person rather than an opposite them
Not fidgeting
, ✔✔Give reassurance and information - ✔✔Treat person with respect and dignity
Do not blame the person for their symptoms
Have realistic expectations
Offer consent emotional support and understanding
Give the person hope for recovery
Provide practical health
Offer info
✔✔Self-help another support strategies - ✔✔Exercise, relaxation and meditation, peer
support groups, self-help books, family friends faith and other social networks
✔✔Two types of bad stress - ✔✔Cumulative stress
Post traumatic stress
✔✔Two stress pathways - ✔✔Normal pathways and destructive pathways
Normal
- general stress
- critical instant stress
destructive pathways
- cumulative stress
- post traumatic stress
✔✔Normal stress - ✔✔Normal routine stress in every day life, some negative some
positive but all manageable. Healthy recovery time
✔✔Critical incident stress - ✔✔The way the body is designed to handle traumatic
events, could be community sized, it's normal but often painful. Symptoms can be
physical emotional and intellectual or behavioral. when symptoms last beyond four
weeks it could be PTSD
✔✔Cumulative stress - ✔✔Occurs his results of prolonged exposure to great many
stressors over a long period of time. Can often result to burn out. May affect work and
personal life
✔✔Three factors of PTSD - ✔✔1. Persistent re-experiencing(One or more)
Nightmares or flashbacks recurrent images or memories intense distress physical
reactions to triggers
2. Avoidance/numbness response (three or more)
Efforts to avoid feelings or triggers
Avoidance of activities people in places
Inability to recall important aspect of trauma
Diminished interest in activities
Feeling of detachment
Restricted range of feeling
Difficulty thinking about long-term
UPDATED STUDY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔How to talk to someone who is suicidal - ✔✔Of the person know you're concerned
and willing to help
Discuss your observations with the person
Ask questions without dread
Don't express negative judgment
Be confident
✔✔Keeping the person safe - ✔✔Provide a safety contact number
Help the person identify past supports
Involve them in decision-making
Do not leave them alone
Do not guilt or threaten them to prevent suicide
Do not agree to keep their plan a secret
✔✔Reasons for self injury - ✔✔To escape unbearable anguish
Change behavior of others
Escape situation
Show desperation to others
Get back in other people
Getting relief from tension
Seek help
✔✔How to help a person who self injures - ✔✔Recognize itself injury usually a symptom
of serious psychological distress
Avoid any negative reactions to the self-injury
Discuss the situation calmly
Focus on ways to help the distress
Do not focus on stopping self-injury
Do not trailize the feelings or situations
Do not punish the person
John threatened withdrawal care
Do not compromise officer safety trying to disarm subject
✔✔Listening non-judge mental - ✔✔Give him a feeling of acceptance, Genuineness,
and empathy
Nonverbal skills to show are:
Attentiveness
Comfortable eye contact
Open body posture
Being seated
Sitting next to the person rather than an opposite them
Not fidgeting
, ✔✔Give reassurance and information - ✔✔Treat person with respect and dignity
Do not blame the person for their symptoms
Have realistic expectations
Offer consent emotional support and understanding
Give the person hope for recovery
Provide practical health
Offer info
✔✔Self-help another support strategies - ✔✔Exercise, relaxation and meditation, peer
support groups, self-help books, family friends faith and other social networks
✔✔Two types of bad stress - ✔✔Cumulative stress
Post traumatic stress
✔✔Two stress pathways - ✔✔Normal pathways and destructive pathways
Normal
- general stress
- critical instant stress
destructive pathways
- cumulative stress
- post traumatic stress
✔✔Normal stress - ✔✔Normal routine stress in every day life, some negative some
positive but all manageable. Healthy recovery time
✔✔Critical incident stress - ✔✔The way the body is designed to handle traumatic
events, could be community sized, it's normal but often painful. Symptoms can be
physical emotional and intellectual or behavioral. when symptoms last beyond four
weeks it could be PTSD
✔✔Cumulative stress - ✔✔Occurs his results of prolonged exposure to great many
stressors over a long period of time. Can often result to burn out. May affect work and
personal life
✔✔Three factors of PTSD - ✔✔1. Persistent re-experiencing(One or more)
Nightmares or flashbacks recurrent images or memories intense distress physical
reactions to triggers
2. Avoidance/numbness response (three or more)
Efforts to avoid feelings or triggers
Avoidance of activities people in places
Inability to recall important aspect of trauma
Diminished interest in activities
Feeling of detachment
Restricted range of feeling
Difficulty thinking about long-term
