Coping Skills
Name 3 positive coping skills for cravings
Similar acceptable answers: Talking to someone, going for a walk/outside, distract with other activities like video games, shows, painting, etc...
What is your, broad, definition of recovery
Being currently, or in the process, of maintaining clean time from substances or drug of choice
What is your, broad, definition of addiction
Being physically dependent on a substance and mentally reliant on it to cope through physical sickness or mental illness
What does DRIVE stand for?
Discipline
Respect
Integrity
Vision
Excellence
What are some slang words for substances
Mary Jane, Ice, Rock, Booger sugar, white horse, etc..
Name 2 ways to cope with negative body image
thought reframing, repeating positive affirmations, taking a break from social media, talk to someone about how your feeling, engage in identifying some things your like about yourself even if it isn't physical
What are some recovery based support groups?
Narcotics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous, Ala-teen, Nar-Anon, SMART recovery, Celebrate Recovery
What are co-occurring disorders
When a client is diagnosed with both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder
How many counselors do we currently have?
Rachael, Autumn, Kenna, Garrett, and Laura (Sometimes Nate :))
What does PAWS stand for?
Post Acute Withdrawal Symptoms
Why are social supports important?
they allow us to have a sense of support within recovery as well as having a "family" that understands addiction and can allow aid to helping cope through PAWS
3 barriers to recovery
What are 3 characteristics of an addict?
Dishonesty, negative communication, difficulty regulating emotions, fatigued, etc...
What type of population does ASC help?:
Adolescents ages 12-17 who have been diagnosed with co-occurring disorders and may have legal, state, CPS, or foster care involvement
What are the 3 most common substances abused by teens?
Alcohol, Marijuana, and Nicotine
What is Urge Surfing
Following the craving or urge to use and not fighting the feeling but allowing yourself to engage in other activities till the urge is gone
What is enabling an addict look like?
What are signs of a mental relapse before a physical one?
What are ALL the dischargeable offenses?
Physically acting out, property damage, truanting, sexually acting out, setting off alarms, tampering with alarms, stealing, drugs, NEW piercings or tattoos, new legal charges, and racial slurs (bullying)
Name 3 PAWS Symptoms
Difficulty controlling emotions, cravings, nerve pain, fatigue, brain fog, Sleep disturbances, Stress sensitivity
What happens in our brains when we practice using coping skills? (why your counselors tell you to practice coping skills)
Name all 12 steps
1. We admit that we are powerless over drugs and alcohol
2. Came to believe a higher power can restore us to sanity
3. Made a decision to turn our lives over to our higher power
4. Made a searching moral inventory of ourselves
5. Admit to ourselves, higher power, and another human being the wrongs of our doings from our moral inventory
6. Were entirely ready to have higher power/god remove the moral defects of our character
7. Humbly ask God/higher power to remove the shortcomings
8. Made a list of the persons we have harmed
9. Made amends with such people
10. Continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong, admit it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve contact with higher power
12. As a result of these steps is a spiritual awakening and we work to give back the lessons of theses steps
How does Addiction affect our physical health?
Slower metabolism, tooth loss, vomiting, liver failure, infections, heart attacks, slows down development and health process
How many years ago did ASC open?
43 years ago
What are 5 classifications (types) of drugs
Cannabis, Psychedelics, Stimulants, Narcotics, and Inhalants