The Church’s Mental Health Page
Mental health challenges can impact anyone, regardless of education, geography, faith, calling, or family. They are nothing to be ashamed of and should be met with love.
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Anxiety
The Beck Anxiety Inventory Questionnaire helps identify symptoms of anxiety in your life and rates their overall impact.
Depression
This is a self-report questionnaire to help identify feelings and how you have been acting recently.
The Beck Depression Inventory is a questionnaire to help classify the level of depression in your life.
Color in how often you have certain thoughts recently to recognize the ratio between positive and negative thought patterns.
Stress
Sister Northam (Glencoe Ward) shares resources and insights that will lead to better mental health. This PowerPoint presentation contains links to several points she discussed.
This “Just for Teens” guide is a fantastic resource to help you be happier and successful by understanding and dealing with the pressures of teenage life.
This article from Psychology Today offers 10 tips for dealing with the everyday stress of teen life.
The Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory helps rate changes that recently happened in your life and your susceptibility to stress-induced health breakdowns.
This stress scale is based on results compiled by clinicians and researchers who tried to identify how people effectively cope with stress. It will help inform you of the most effective and healthy ways to cope.
Teenagers may experience stress every day and can benefit from learning some of these stress management skills.
A hundred ideas for youth to help cope with mental or emotional stress.
Resilience
Resilience—Spiritual Armor for Today’s Youth
As we prayerfully work on the challenging job of raising resilient children, the Lord will bless us with the guidance and inspiration we need to help them gain the emotional and spiritual strength to deal with life’s challenges.
Building Resilience: Eight Tips for Parents
These suggestions will help you cultivate that kind of warm and helpful relationship as you seek to build your children’s resilience and prepare them for the challenges of life.
Building Resilience: 3 Science-Backed Ways to Find Healing
Setbacks are not unique to life. What is unique is how well we are able to bounce-back from those setbacks. Building resilience is a key to growing and healing from life’s inevitable failures, tragedies, and setbacks.
This brochure is intended to help readers with taking their own road to resilience. The information within describes resilience and some factors that affect how people deal with hardship. Much of the brochure focuses on developing and using a personal strategy for enhancing resilience.
While much of the research on resilience focuses on individual strengths, it’s social support that may matter the most.
Screens
Helps
This worksheet guides you in recording thoughts and feelings you’re having and guide yourself to healthier coping patterns.
Just because you have a thought doesn’t mean it’s true. Your thoughts are
guesses about why something happened, or about something that might happen. Coming up with new thoughts will help you see a situation differently. This is a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) worksheet to help separate thoughts, feelings and actions.
The Choice Point will help you successfully deal with challenging situations.
Podcast: The Perils of Perfectionism
How to make sense of perfectionism, and how to overcome it. Click below to listen to this great podcast.
Suicide Prevention and Ministering
There is understanding and healing from the pain of suicide.