Stress
? is something in the world that makes a demand on a person
Stressor
Skills that can help with a trigger to an addiction or negative thought.
Coping Skills
A set of simple strategies that can help you detach from emotional pain (e.g., anxiety, anger, sadness, self-harm).
Grounding techniques
True or False Anger is ONLY a negative emotion.
False
In the 12 step program, people need to get help from someone or something outside of themselves, something more powerful than themselves or their addiction. This called what?
Higher Power
? is stress that comes from feeling forced to achieve specific goals by speeding up, working harder, or changing the way something is done. It may also come from the expectations of others.
Pressure
DAILY DOUBLE
Name five coping skills.
They can list their own.
This is a grounding technique in which a person creates images in the mind that can influence what the mind and body do now and in the future.
Visualization/Mental
Some examples are sweating, rapid heartbeat, flushed face..
This is the difference between organized religion and Spirituality.
They can give their own definition.
? is stress that comes from encountering obstacles that block a person from reaching a goal.
Frustration
True or False "It can take up to two years to develop a habit."
True
This is a grounding technique used that focuses your senses in which you might use an object or run your hand under cold water.
Physical Grounding
In class what did we say was the difference between chronic depression and seasonal depression?
Name three types of Spirituality that we mentioned in class.
They can give their own answers.
? is stress that comes from a disagreement that occurs between two opposing forces—one against the other.
Conflict
Practice
A grounding technique in which you would say positive statements to yourself or list your favorite television shows.
Soothing Grounding
Name the four steps that led to the outcome of one's actions. (Reference the assignment we did in class Yesterday called the Cognitive Model.)
1. The Event 2. Thoughts 3. Feelings 4. Behavior4
Recite the Serenity Prayer.
God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change Courage to change the things I can and the Wisdom to know the difference.
Daily Double
? is a defense mechanism in which people emotionally distance themselves from events, even if the events are important to them.
Emotional insulation
Can a coping skill help you in your recovery?
I threw this in here for points. (But only if they say yes.)
Give an example of the three types of grounding.
They can list their own as long as it is an example of the following: 1. Mental (focusing your mind) 2. Physical (focusing your senses) 3. Soothing (talking to yourself in a very kind way)
Give an example of the Cognitive Model Process.
Name the H.O.W. of Spirituality.
Honesty
Open-mindedness
Willingness