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General Terms:
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Therapy | - Focuses on the past and present |
Topics:
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Future plans 🔮 | Thinking about what you want to do in the future (college, career, etc) |
| Academic performance 📚 | Grades, homework, tests |
| Stress 😬 | Feeling worried or overwhelmed |
| Body image 🔍 | Physical appearance and how you feel about it. |
| Gender identity | Inner sense of being male, female, or another gender |
| Self-esteem 💖 | How you feel about yourself |
| Cultural identity 🥐🌮🍙 | Understanding your background and culture(s) and how they impact you |
| Money 🤑 | Worrying about money or how you will pay for things |
| Finding purpose 🔦 | Understanding how you are important and how you can impact others |
| Sexual orientation 🏳️🌈 | Attraction to an intimate partner of a certain gender |
| Trauma ❤️🩹 | Experiencing an event where you feared for your life or safety |
| Life transitions 😟 | Making big changes in your life (moving from middle to high school, becoming an older sibling) |
| Chronic illness ❤️🩹 | Serious health problems, often long-term |
| Perfectionism ⭐️ | Not wanting to ever make a mistake. Feeling terrible when you’re not “good” at something |
| Grief/loss ❤️🩹 | Losing someone or something that was significant in your life |
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