Foundatioms & Monitoring
You must agree to these before starting the group to ensure a safe, supportive, and private environment.
What is the Participation Agreement?
The core physical technique taught in Module 2 for managing an acute stress response.
What is Deep Breathing?
The physical, mental, and behavioral components that make up the anxiety experience.
What are the Three Parts of Anxiety?
This term refers to the unconscious, autonomic nervous system response (such as a racing heart or shallow breathing) you recognize when anxiety is incoming.
What is a Somatic Cue (or Body Cue)?
Roughly this percentage of individuals experience an anxiety disorder at the time they are newly incarcerated.
What is 44.4%?
The rules that dictate when a facilitator must break confidentiality (e.g., risk of harm).
What are Limits of Confidentiality?
The fundamental rationale behind all coping plans and relaxation skills is the engagement of this specific biological mechanism.
What is the relaxation response (or activating the parasympathetic nervous system)?
The internal dialogue that heavily dictates your emotional reactions
What is Self-Talk?
Module 7, these three biological components make up how a human experiences anxiety.
What are Physical/Body Sensations, Thoughts/Behaviors, and Emotions
Research suggests that over this proportion of all incarcerated individuals are diagnosed with some form of mental illness during their lifetime.
What is 50 percent?
A checklist you complete at the start and end of the program to track your personal tension and distress levels.
What is the Self-Assessment: My Feelings and Symptoms?
The physical relaxation method that requires you to tense and release muscle groups.
What is Progressive Muscle Relaxation?
This term refers to the emotional regulation strategy where you try to hide or push down your anxious behaviors.
What is Expressive Suppression?
According to Handout 7D, this phenomenon occurs when physical anxiety symptoms are mistaken for a catastrophic medical or life-threatening event.
What is a Panic Attack (or Catastrophizing)?
In a 2026 APA policy position, this nationwide, three-digit mental health crisis hotline was cited as a major resource to help divert those experiencing severe psychological distress from the criminal justice system altogether.
What is 9-8-8?
A daily monitoring tool used across multiple modules to track your stressors and emotional responses is the Anxiety logs. This is the primary goal of recording an anxiety log over time.
What is identifying patterns and triggers?
A guided visualization exercise where you detail a secure, calming location.
What is a Safe Place?
A cognitive behavioral technique (an acronym) used to interrupt and halt negative thoughts.
What is S-T-O-P/ 3 C's (catch it, check it, change it)?
these two specific brain regions are responsible for the physiological fight-or-flight symptoms versus logical cognitive processing.
What are the Amygdala and the Prefrontal Cortex?
Based on a one-year prevalence rate, women in the U.S. are diagnosed with any anxiety disorder at a rate of 23.4%. Men are diagnosed at this much lower rate.
What is 14.3%?
The transition of anxiety from inside the facility to the outside world is commonly referred to as this syndrome, characterized by a fear of returning to society.
What is post-incarceration syndrome (or institutionalization syndrome)?
this grounding technique, which relies on identifying things you can see, you can touch, you can hear, you can smell, and you can taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 Sensory Grounding Technique?
The cognitive technique of replacing negative, self-defeating statements with positive, constructive affirmations.
What is "Putting in a New Tape" (or Making New Tapes)?
this phenomenon occurs when an individual misinterprets a perfectly benign physical symptom (like a slight headache) as an anxiety trigger.
What is Hypervigilance (or Scanning)?
According to the Anxiety & Depression Association of America, about one-half of individuals diagnosed with this co-occurring mental health condition also suffer from an anxiety disorder.
What is depression?