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- Genetic
- Immobility
- Lack of adequate sunlight
- bullying
- Anxiety
- Prolonged stress
Depression Causes
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- Abusive Relationships
- Trauma
- inadequate sunlight
- Family problems
- Social/Relational problems
- Grief/ loss
Depression Causes
SLIDE 3 What Helps?
- Time Management
- Prioritizing
- Saying “No”
- Routine
- Consistency
- Exposure
SLIDE 4 What Helps?
- Sleep
- EXERCISE
- Prayer and Reflection
- Journaling
- Limit Screen time
- Sacraments
SLIDE 5 Mental Health Resources
- Counseling & Peer Counseling/ Ministry
- Parent and Faculty Education
- Student Education
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SLIDE 7
LGBTQ Youth
SLIDE 8 L=Lesbian G= Gay B = Bi Sexual T = Transgender Q = Queer/Questioning
Terminology
SLIDE 9 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
SLIDE 10 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
SLIDE 11 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
SLIDE 12 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)
SLIDE 13 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)
SLIDE 14 Gender Identity - New Atlantis
- .03 - .06% US adults
- Adults sex reassignment surgery —> Higher risk
- f poor mental health outcomes.
- Sex reassigned adults 5x more likely to attempt
suicide
- 19x more likely to die by suicide
SLIDE 15 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)
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Human Resistance
SLIDE 17
7000
languages/dialects
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7000
ways to listen?
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EMPATHIC
Evangelization
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Power of Empathic Listening
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Listen to Understand vs. Fix
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Listen to Understand and Heal
SLIDE 23 People will
what you tell them, but they’ll never forget how you see and listen to them.
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Slow Down
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Why Talking won’t work
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Intellectual Resistance
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Logic is not enough
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Emotional Resistance
