2025 prepare for national certification
current state of mental health in the United States - ✔✔✔~50M or 19.86% of American adults
experienced a mental illness in 2019
-4.58% of adults report having serious thoughts of suicide
• increased every year since 2011-2012
-24.7% of adults with mental illness report an unmet need for tx
• not declined since 2011
-15.08% of youth experienced major depressive episode in past year.
->60% of youth with major depression do not receive tx
-10.6% or >2.5 million youth in US have severe major depression.
• highest: identify as more than one race, at 14.5%.
-Yough with severe depression; 27% receive consistent care (12% in states with least access)
-11.1% Americans with a mental illness are uninsured
-8.1% of children had private insurance that did not cover mental health services, totally 950,000 youth.
___________________, ________________________, or a combination of the two have been
recommended to treat most mental health disorders - ✔✔✔psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy
Mindfulness - ✔✔✔-psychological technique
-individual intensely focuses on mind and/or body awareness in the present moment without judgment
or interpretation
-mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)
-mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)
-reducing stress, anxiety, depression & improving physical health
mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) Areas of agreement - ✔✔✔effective for improving many
biopsychosocial conditions:
-depression, anxiety, stress, insomnia, addiction, psychosis, pain, hypertension, weight control, cancer-
related symptoms and prosocial behaviours