Coping Skills
This coping skills has you focus on your environment using the different senses.
What is 54321 grounding?
This drug lowers inhibitions, impairs judgement, and creates feelings of euphoria. One of the most widely used substances in the world.
What is alcohol?
Person has decided to change their behavior and making a plan of how to do so; may not have completely ended behavior.
What is preparation?
Most commonly abused drug in the US
What is alcohol?
This part of the brain is responsible for decision making and impulse control.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This coping skill has you write negative thoughts you have and write down reasons they may not be true.
What is thought challenge?
This substance works in the brain by acting like neurotransmitters. Creates feelings of intense pleasure.
What are opioids?
Steps are being taken to end behavior, such as avoiding people, places, or things.
What is action?
A disease that affects a person's brain and behavior and leads to an inability to control the use of a legal or illegal drug or medicine
What is addiction?
This neurotransmitter is released to create pleasurable sensations.
What is dopamine?
This coping skill requires concentration to bring yourself back to the present moment. Often uses soothing sounds, such as ocean waves.
What is meditation?
This substance slows down your central nervous system and have a high OD risk as it causes many body systems to shut down.
What are barbituates?
The individual is experiencing ambivalence about change. At this stage they can see reasons to change their behavior, but are still hesitant to make the change.
What is contemplation?
Approximately the number of people who die each year from substance use overdose.
What is approximately 152,000 people each year (as of 2023)?
This hormone causes us to feel stress or like we're in "fight or flight".
What is cortisol?
This skill has you choose an opposite response to a stressor than what you would normally choose.
Ex. If feeling depressed, the opposite reaction would be to move your body and socialize.
What is opposite action?
Amphetamines are known as what?
What are uppers (stimulants)?
At this stage, a person is in denial and are not yet considering changing their behavior.
What is precontemplation?
CBT stands for ________.
______ is in charge of emotions and associating pleasurable experiences related to substance use.
What is the amygdala?
This skill challenges us to rely on emotion and reason, vs just one or the other (hint: DBT skill).
What is wise mind?
_________ alters someone's perception of reality, sometimes known as "tripping".
What are Hallucinogens?
The changes made during the action stage are now maintained. The individual may continue to face some challenges, but at this point they have successfully changed their behavior for a significant period of time.
What is maintenance?
___________ are stimuli that prompt strong cravings or emotional distress related to substance use.
What are triggers?
True or False: Substance use permanently alters our brain chemistry and function?
True and false; this depends on various factors.