Sierra Sage Specific
A case manager who schedules appointments, sets up insurance, applies for assistance, and helps every client get all their important documents.
Who is Tasha?
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.
What is the Serenity Prayer?
not consuming any mind altering drugs
What does abstinence mean?
Identify which circumstances lead to using drugs or drinking.
What does Recognize mean?
a classic technique for decision-making, involving weighing the positives and negatives of a behavior
What is a Cost/Benefit Analysis?
What is a Decision Matrix?
What is a Pro/Con List?
The first thing that a client does when they come for treatment
What is an assessment?
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is Step One?
What is addiction?
Remove yourself from trigger situations whenever possible or appropriate.
What does Avoid mean?
a state of nonjudgmental awareness of what’s happening in the present moment, including the awareness of one’s own thoughts, feelings, and senses.
What is Mindfulness?
a film watched in residential groups (RTC) that revolves around the story of a father and son battling addiction
What is Beautiful Boy?
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What is Step Two?
A mutual-help organization or peer support group for people who have been affected by a loved one’s alcohol use disorder.
What is AL-Anon?
Friends, family, and even fellow group members or sponsors
What are social supports?
A stimulus - such as a person, place, situation, or thing - that contributes to an unwanted emotional or behavioral response
What is a Trigger?
a systematic treatment strategy that seeks to decrease recidivism among adult criminal offenders by increasing moral reasoning.
What is Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT)
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
What is Step Three?
A state of psychological tension in which one is pulled in two different directions: to stay the same or to make changes.
What is ambivalence?
Use CBT techniques to address and alleviate emotions and thoughts that lead to substance abuse.
when you stop fighting reality, stop responding with impulsive or destructive behaviors when things aren't going the way you want them to, and let go of bitterness that may be keeping you trapped in a cycle of suffering.
a group (recently completed) focused on an individual's belief in his or her capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific performance
What is Self-Efficacy?
Step 5
the most difficult of all the steps, this is the one that asks us to admit "our wrongs" and to do so in front of our higher power and another person.
Unlimited emotional or psychological reliance on a partner or family member. Often used with regard to a partner requiring support due to an illness or disease (e.g. substance use disorder).
What is codependency?
A simple technique used to help manage emotions, specifically involving your controlling your body
What is Deep Breathing?
thought patterns that cause people to view reality in inaccurate — usually negative — ways.
What are Cognitive Distortions?