Skills
Taking care of your physical and mental health by doing healthy activities/ healthy pleasures on a daily basis.
What is self care?
A place where staff and patients gather to eat good food and get the best coffee in the hospital
What is the bay cafe?
A plan made before an emergency situation, to be used in recovery from substance and/ or mental illness to prevent relapse and promote a healthy lifestyle.
Hint: Maddy gives a booklet that works on this to every patient in their second meeting with the addiction counsellor.
What is a structured relapse prevention plan?
One is our general psychological and emotional well-being while the other is a diagnosable condition
What is mental health vs mental illness
a drink that contains ethanol, that acts as a drug and is produced by fermentation of grains, fruits, or other sources of sugar.
What is alcohol?
A safe, non-using person who I can go to in times of need, crisis/ emergency situations, someone I trust.
What is a support person.
The name of the psychiatric hospital before it was called Waypoint. It was called this from 1933-2008.
What is Oakridge?
Skills/strategies I use when experiencing a craving/ trigger.
What are coping skills?
Condition of excessive worry about everyday issues and situations. It lasts longer than 6 months. In addition to feeling worried you may also feel restlessness, fatigue, trouble concentrating, irritability, increased muscle tension, and trouble sleeping.
What is an generalized anxiety disorder?
________can affect your memory and cognitive function and cause harmful cardiovascular effects, such as high blood pressure. Long-term use can worsen respiratory conditions. Can also cause headaches, dry mouth and eyes, fatigue.
What are the side effects of marijuana use?
A tool used in CBT to help capture, evaluate and re-structure negative beliefs . Hint: There are columns.
What is a thought record?
Before serving as a hospital for individuals with mental illness, waypoints grounds were used as this.
A boys reformatory.
One occurs when the individual turns to their substance of choice and abandons their recovery plan, continuing use. The other occurs when a substance use is only momentary and the individual is able to reach out/ stop use.
What is the difference between a slip and a relapse?
a mental illness characterized by cycling through periods of low and elevated moods. These extreme mood swings affect how people may behave and function.
What is bi-polar disorder?
Known as the hardest drug to quit. 13% of men and 10% of women report using this substance every day. In other statistics 3.2 million Canadians report a dependence to this substance.
What is nicotine?
a mental state that focuses
one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly accepting and acknowledging one's feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations. Hint: key concept of DBT
What is mindfulness?
The original name of the Georgianwood program.
What is "the problem drinkers program"?
A person, place or thing that tends to trigger our substance use or mental illness. Usually a combination of people, places and things
What is a high risk situation?
DBT was originally created to treat which personality disorder?
What is the recommended treatment for borderline personality disorder?
are a way to classify drugs into categories that can be based on a couple of different factors such as which part of the body they affect, and which drugs are similar on a chemical level.
What are drug classes?
Fully accepting things as they are without judgment. Hint: we do not have to like something to accept it. Pain without ______ = pain and suffering.
Pain with _______ = pain.
What is radical acceptance?
The year of 1969.
What is the date of construction on the Toanche building.
also known as “addiction interaction disorder” refers to moving between addictions.
When two addictions occur in the same person usually because a person who has one addiction is more likely to develop another addiction.
What is cross addiction?
hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder, movement disorder
What are examples of positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
What is methadone.