The MHA offers a variety of programs, trainings and educational topics (on mental health, prevention and wellness, and mental illness) available to our community

Mental Health is more than the absence of illness. The four parameters of good mental health are:

  1. the ability to be productive, to do something that gives value and self-worth;
  2. the ability to initiate and sustain intimate and appropriate relationships;
  3. the ability to adapt to change – the only constant in our lives;
  4. the ability to cope with adversities – to work through problems and overcome them.

MENTAL HEALTH TOPICS:

    • The Role of Laugher
    • Conflict Resolution
    • Chocolate and Your Brain
    • Anger Management
    • Your Child’s Brain
    • Attitude and Mental Health
    • Understanding the Brain
    • Assertiveness Training
    • Stress Management
    • Risky Behaviors
    • Your Teenager’s Brain
    • Mental Health Issues Today
    • Exercise and Memory
    • Public Policy Issues

 

WHAT IS A MENTAL DISORDER?

A mental disorder is a clinically significant group of symptoms (behavioral or psychological) which causes an individual distress, disability, or the increased risk of suffering pain, disability, loss of freedom or death.

Mental disorders describe a disease process, not a person. (A person has schizophrenia, is not a schizophrenic.) Persons may have the same disease and appear to manage it quite differently.

The DSM-IV Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder) follows the medical model of illness. Mental disorders are defined based on scientific inquiry and study of symptoms, signs, behaviors and life course of the disorder. Like most physical disorders, mental disorders are real and treatable.

 

 

MENTAL ILLNESS TOPICS:

    • The Major Mental Illnesses
    • Having a Loved One With Mental Illness
    • Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
    • Cutting
    • Managing Bi-Polar Disorder
    • Suicide – Why?
    • Managing Your Depression
    • The Anxiety Disorders
    • Living With Schizophrenia
    • The Role of Trauma and Violence
    • Understanding and Accessing the System
    • Recovery

Mental Health is happiness, peace of mind, enjoyment, satisfaction.

Mental Health is feeling comfortable with, and accepting who you are.

Mental Health is being able to meet the demands of life.

Mental Health is taking disappointment in stride.

Mental health is smiling – being happy to be alive and living your life.

 

 

PREVENTION AND WELLNESS TOPICS:

    • Stroke  Prevention
    • Growing Teens Healthy
    • Maintaining Balance in Your Life
    • The Pillars of Good Mental Health
    • Aging Gracefully, Aging Well
    • The Role of Inflammation and Obesity
    • Know Your Brain
    • Caring for Your Brain
    • Eating Healthy
    • I Don’t Want to Get Old

CREATE YOUR OWN

If you would like a specific topic or program developed for your particular organization, that is not listed, you may contact us with your request. We will be happy to research, develop and write a program specific to your needs. We present on all ages of the human life span from early childhood to end-of-life issues. Please give us approximately three weeks notice.

“Tragic and devastating disorders such as schizophrenia, depression and bi-polar disorder, Alzheimer’s disease, the mental and behavioral; disorders suffered by children, ...affect nearly one in five Americans in any year.”

Surgeon General