Relapse Prevention
What are some triggers or warning signs?
Isolation, Depression, loss/death, boredom, angry?
What tiny word is a complete sentence?
What is NO?
What is it called when you withhold information?
What is a negative contract?
Writing down your thoughts, emotions, and daily experiences to process them safely.
What is journaling?
True or false: Willpower alone is all a person needs to successfully overcome a severe substance use disorder.
What is FALSE?
Addiction changes the brain chemistry, often requiring clinical support, coping tools and community.
These are two main types of triggers that can create a craving to use.
What is internal and external triggers.
What lines do we draw to protect our mental, emotional, and physical well-being, defining what we are and not okay with.
What are boundaries?
this is a term we use if we are worried about someone or ourselves.
What is an individual concern?
This therapeutic technique is a mental state... achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.
What is mindfullness?
True or false:
Spirituality and religion mean the exact same thing in the context of recovery.
What is false?
Spirituality focuses on a personal connection to a higher purpose or inner peace, whereas religion is structured around specific institutional doctrines.
Name one of the stages of relapse before the physical relapse occurs.
What is emotional, mental or pre-use stage?
Communication, clear honest, and direct, allowing a person to advocate for their own needs while still respecting others.
What is assertive communication?
What does CA stand for?
What is Client Advocate?
This is the practice of taking an active role in regularly doing things that improve your well being and happiness, in particular during periods of stress.
What is self-care?
True or false:
Hormonal fluctuations across the menstrual cycle have a phycological impact on subjective cravings, stress reactivity, or withdrawal symptoms during woman's recovery.
What is true.
Cravings, this is the average duration of a typical acute physical craving.
What is ten to fifteen minutes?
This toxic behavior occurs when a partner forces you to cut ties with friends, family, or support networks to gain total control.
What is isolation?
This person is here to support you throughout you recovery.
What is a pier specialist?
This is the serenity prayer.
What is God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference?
True or false:
Interpersonal conflict and relationship distress are more frequently identified as immediate triggers for relapse in woman compared to men.
What is True?
What does WRAP stand for?
What is Wellness Recovery Action Plan?
This term refers to manipulative behaviors used to gradually break down a person's boundaries over time to make them more vulnerable to abuse or control.
What is grooming?
You come in broken and lost, put into a cocoon and transform into
What is a butterfly
This distress tolerance technique uses the phrase "ride the wave" to describe letting the craving reach its peak intensity and pass without giving into it.
What is urge surfing?
True or false:
The only step you MUST get right every single day is Step ONE.
What is TRUE