# Presentation: 440670

## WELLNESS TO EMPLOYABILITY

**Mental Health Training for **
**St. Louis Job Corps Transition Students!**

## Mental Health Trainingfor Transition Students (TS)

- Goals
- TS will know how to access mental health services once they leave St. Louis Job Corps.
- TS will be able to recognize common mental health issues in themselves and others.
- TS will be able to develop a plan to manage their workplace mental health issues.

## Effects Of Stress

- Warning Signs
-  Physical
-  Emotional

## What happens when weare under stress?

- The Alarm Reaction
- Adaptation
- Breakdown

## Negative Results of Stress

- Mental
- Emotional
- Physical

## Positive Results of Stress

- Mental
- Emotional
- Physical

## Coping with Stressors

- Ineffective
- Drinking
- Yelling
- Other
- Effective
- Assertive
- Change thinking
- Other

## How to Access Mental Health Help

- Insurance Benefits
- Local sliding scale services
- PRACTICE GETTING HELP!

## Health Habits Checklist

- I do not smoke cigarettes.
- I do not drink more than 2 drinks a day.
- I eat breakfast regularly.
- I do not eat between meals.
- I maintain normal weight.

## Health Habits Checklist

- I avoid caffeine and sugar.
- I exercise at least three times a week.
- I sleep seven to eight hours a night.
- I have a good support system.
- I wear a seat belt while riding in a moving vehicle.

## How to Beat Stress

- Sit or lie down
- Uncross your arms or legs
- Shut your eyes
- Breathe in through your nose
- Count internally to three as you do that
- Breath out through your mouth to a count of five

## How to Beat Stress (continued)

- Do this cycle of breathing 10 times
- Visualize yourself in a positive scene
- See the scene in great detail
- See yourself doing only positive things
- After three to four minutes just drift awake

## Anxiety

- Feeling afraid or upset
- Neck or back pains
- Pounding heart
- Queasiness or stomach upset
- Compulsiveness

- Depression
- Nervousness
- Worry
- Headaches
- Other

## Depression

- Loss of appetite or overeating
- Problems in sleeping
- Loss of self-confidence
- Hopelessness, Helplessness

- Thoughts of suicide and death
- Difficulty getting up in the morning
- Little joy in daily activities
- Low sexual drive

## Problem Gambling

- Increased frequency and amount of money gambled
- Spending excessive time gambling
- Gambling always to topic of conversation
- Gambling to cope with stress
- Frequent mood swings
- Lying to cover up gambling

## Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

- Nightmares, difficulty sleeping
- Intrusive memories
- Hyper vigilance to noise and sights
- Irritability
- Difficulty concentrating
- Anger

- Avoidance of certain things
- Flashbacks
- Withdrawal
- Numb feelings
- Anxiety and depression

## Suicide Signs

- Talking or threatening to harm oneself
- Previous attempts
- Severe depression
- Loss of important person
- Saying goodbye

## Suicide Signs

- Abuse of drugs and alcohol
- Themes of death and dying in artwork and writing
- Plan of suicide
- Severe health problems

## Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

- Attends to everything
- Continuously in motion, fidgety
- Seems to touch everything
- Short attention span
- Distractible

- Forgetful
- Aggressive
- Little self control
- Impatient
- Loses things
- Talks loudly

## Wellness to EmployabilityPlan of Action

**Wellness to Employability****Plan of Action**

- I will manage my stressors in the following ways . . .
- I will manage my mental health issues in the following ways . . .
- I need the following mental health help to be successful . . .