DBT Skills/SMART Recovery
If every emotion has an action urge, we change the emotion by ____________ to its action urge.
What is Acting Opposite
True or false: You have to remember details within a traumatic memory to effectively process?
What is False
Identifying these 3 types of triggers can help in a relapse prevention plan.
Internal, External and Sensory
What do emotions tell us?
What is:
Provide information about our needs and if they are being met or not.
This common recovery slogan reminds people to focus only on today instead of worrying about the future.
What is One Day at a Time
In SMART Recovery, what does a change plan focus on?
What is: The focus is what a person wants to change, why, and how they will do it.
Trauma triggers can cause a person's body to go into these modes.
What are:
Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
A individual feels irritable and begins rationalizing using substances after a stressful day at work. Instead of acting on the urge, they call their sponsor, journal their feelings, and take a walk.
What can those 3 actions be considered?
What is Coping Skills
This statement is false: Emotional regulation requires completely eliminating negative emotions
What is the truth about the goal of emotional regulation?
What is:
Not to eliminate emotions but to manage them and respond effectively.
In the HBO series The Wire, this recovering heroin addict becomes one of the show’s most beloved characters while working as a police informant.
Who is Bubbles
The DBT curriculum focused on recovering from invalidation as a part of interpersonal effectiveness. Within this skill it states when invalidation is helpful, what are those 2 reasons.
(you can provide 3 reasons)
What is:
1. It corrects important mistakes (your facts are wrong)
2. It stimulates intellectual and personal growth by listening to other views
What is the difference between Hypoarousal and Hyperarousal in the nervous system do?
What is:
Hyperarousal/Sympathetic: ACTIVATION, Activated during danger, stress, or physical activity. It increases heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate, while dilating pupils and inhibiting digestion.
Hypoarousal/Parasympathetic: DEACTIVATION, Dominates during quiet, resting conditions. It decreases heart rate and blood pressure, stimulates digestion, and promotes relaxation
A person begins craving substances after remembering a stressful argument with a friend, even though they are sitting safely at home.
What type of trigger is this?
What is Internal
This type of therapy focuses on noticing and releasing tension stored in the body from trauma, stress, or past substance use, often using techniques like breathwork, grounding, movement, or body awareness.
What is Somatic Therapy
This actor and former member of the Saturday Night Live cast has openly talked about his recovery from substance use.
Who is Pete Davidson
A person notices they are having an unhelpful thought/belief, and since the activating event does not cause the consequences, but the belief causes the consequences, what three questions can they ask themself to dispute that thought?
What is:
1. Is this thought true? (would it hold up in a court of law)
2. Is this thought logical? (am I jumping to conclusions or would I saw this to a friend)
3. Is this thought helpful? (is this thought holding me back from my original goal)
What are the 3 different boundary styles when we think of wanting to set healthy boundaries?
Name and definition needed
What are:
1. Rigid: emotionally closed off, avoidant
2. Healthy: flexible, assertive, value-based
3. Porous: over-involvement, difficulty saying no
In Navigating the Blues in Recovery Life Skills, what are the 3 reasons why Sadness and Clinical Depression trigger relapse?
What is:
1. Self-Medication: The brain remembers that substances provided a temporary "lift."
2. The "Forget It" Effect: Intense sadness can lead to nihilism ("Nothing matters anyway, so why stay sober?").
3. Isolation: Depression pulls you away from the very people (sponsors, peers) who keep you safe.
What is an example of activation to deactivation?
Always reference the statement, what goes up, must come down.
Increased heart rate to decrease in heart rate
Excitement to Relaxed
Stomach making noises to Quiet tummy
Racing Thoughts to Slower Thoughts
Finish the phrase: “Meeting makers make ______.”
What is IT
TWO Part Question:
1. What is the meaning of Dialectics
2. What can we change "either/or" and "always/never" thinking to?
What is:
1. Two opposing things being true at once
2. "Both/and" and "sometimes" thinking
Ex: Validating yourself AND acknowledging errors
What are the 11 Posttraumatic Growth Group Rules that we follow in session here at Avatar?
What are:
Confidentiality, Respect, Non-Judgmental, Active Listening, Participation, Punctuality, No Crosstalk, Use I Statements, No Rescuing, No Distractions, Follow the Facilitator's Guidance
What are 5 examples of Urge and Craving Management
1. Urge Surfing
2. Pause/Delay and Distract
3. Behavior Replacement/Opposite Action
4. Coping Statements/Cognitive Restructuring/Playing the Tape
5. Grounding and Mindfulness
*Not listed you have to plead your case
What are 3 body awareness techniques?
What is
1. Mindful Body Scan
2. Grounding Through Physical Sensations
3. Movement Based Awareness
This 1994 album by Nine Inch Nails contains the song Hurt, later famously covered by Johnny Cash and often associated with themes of addiction and regret.
What is Downward Spiral