COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS
This is when we see ourselves as the cause of negative events that we are not responsible for.
What is Personalization?
They connect us with reality
What are facts?
Founder of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Aaron Beck
This is alone is not sufficient to overcome alcoholism or addiction.
What is willpower?
To fall back into a previous condition, especially after a partial recover from illness.
What is relapse?
Fortune Telling and Mind Reading are types of what cognitive distortion?
What is Jumping to Conclusions?
Who was Dr. Olds?
What are the Olds Experiments ?
"I feel it, therefore it must be true". Assuming our emotions are how things really are.
What is Emotional Reasoning?
The two parts of the first step
What are powerlessness and unmanageability ?
"Dry Drunk"
What is abstinence without recovery or staying clean without working a program?
Definition of cognitive distortion
What is faulty or inaccurate thinking, perception or beliefs?
This region of the brain is primarily associated with emotional processes
What is the Amygdala?
Differences between Thought Stopping and ABCD Model
What is in thought stopping you don't dispute the thoughts, but rather stop and replace them entirely?
This is a group in which a member is comfortable with and where he or she does official group business.
What is a home group?
An internal trigger
What is a thought or a feeling that can create a craving to use drugs?
This is when we look at our strengths and trivialize them.
What is Minimization?
Cunning, baffling, and powerful
The A-B-C-D Model
What is (A) Activating Event (or red flag), (B) Belief someone holds about the activating event (self-talk, expectations), (C) Consequences of the event (how do you feel about the event based on self-talk), (D) Dispute of negative thinking with solution-oriented thinking (examining your beliefs)?
The answer to all of our problems (Big Book p. 417).
What is acceptance?
An external trigger
What are the people, places, and things associated with drinking or using drugs
This is another term for Cognitive Distortions
What is Faulty Thinking or Stinkin' Thinking
Location of the nucleus accumbens
The basal forebrain and is a significant structure of the ventral striatum, an area of the brain associated with the limbic system, and regulates limbic functions of motivation, affect, and reward.
The 6 Parts of Stop and Think
What is 1) Physical reactions, 2) Risk thoughts, 3) Risk feelings, 4) Be Quiet, 5) Get Space, 6) Calm down?
Spiritual Principle of Step One
What is Honesty?
The Six Phases in "The Cycle of Addiction"
What are 1) Initial Use, 2) Abuse, 3) Tolerance, 4) Addiction (Dependence), 5) Withdrawal, and 6) Relapse?