What Helps? Time Management Prioritizing Saying No Routine - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Depression Causes • Genetic • Immobility • Lack of adequate sunlight • bullying • Anxiety • Prolonged stress

Depression Causes • Abusive Relationships • Trauma • inadequate sunlight • Family problems • Social/Relational problems • Grief/ loss

What Helps? • Time Management • Prioritizing • Saying “No” • Routine • Consistency • Exposure

What Helps? • Sleep • EXERCISE • Prayer and Reflection • Journaling • Limit Screen time • Sacraments

Mental Health Resources •Counseling & Peer Counseling/ Ministry •Parent and Faculty Education •Student Education

LGBTQ Youth

Terminology L=Lesbian G= Gay B = Bi Sexual T = Transgender Q = Queer/Questioning

Pastoral Goals • Validate and Support them • Help them hold the tension • Help them find some value in holding the tension • Hold the current “identity” gently • Reinforce, specific and current

Non-Hetero Youth Stats Elevated risk for adverse Mental Health issues • 1.5x Risk of Anxiety than hetero youth • 2x risk of Depression • 1.5x risk of Substance Abuse • 2.5 times risk of Suicide • 2-3x likely experience childhood sex abuse •

LGBTQ Youth Stats - YRBS 8% High School Teens “Identify” - 1.3M • 18% report being raped (3x higher than hetero) • 30% attempted suicide (4x higher) • 6% heroine - 5% IV drug use • 2.5 times risk of Suicide • 2x likely to be bullied •

Sexual Orientation - New Atlantis Research can’t substantiate “born that way” • Evidence to support genes/horomones associated • with orientation Researchers cannot substantiate minor brain • structure differences that exist b/t hetero and homosexuals as biologically nature (vs. nurture)

Sexual Orientation - New Atlantis 80% adolescents reported SSA no longer did as • adults (1 study) Evidence to support genes/horomones associated • with orientation Researchers cannot substantiate minor brain • structure differences that exist b/t hetero and homosexuals as biologically nature (vs. nurture)

Gender Identity - New Atlantis .03 - .06% US adults • Adults sex reassignment surgery —> Higher risk • of poor mental health outcomes. Sex reassigned adults 5x more likely to attempt • suicide 19x more likely to die by suicide •

Gender Identity - New Atlantis Weak correlations b/t brain structure and cross gender • identification Lifetime suicide rate 41% compared to 5% overall • Small minority of children who ID as cross gender • continue into adolescence or adulthood Little scientific evidence supporting therapeutic value of • biological interventions (delayed pub/mod 2nd sex)

Human Resistance

7000 languages/dialects

7000 ways to listen?

EMPATHIC Evangelization

Power of Empathic Listening

Listen to Understand vs. Fix

Listen to Understand and Heal

People will often forget what you tell them, but they’ll never forget how you see and listen to them.

Slow Down

Why Talking won’t work

Intellectual Resistance

Logic is not enough

Emotional Resistance