Coping Skills
Recovery
Addiction
GLRC Rehab
Substances
100

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... 

100

What is your, broad, definition of recovery

Being currently, or in the process, of maintaining clean time from substances or drug of choice 

100

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

100

What does DRIVE stand for?

Discipline

Respect

Integrity 

Vision

Excellence

100

What are some slang words for substances 

Mary Jane, Ice, Rock, Booger sugar, white horse, etc.. 

200

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

200

What are some recovery based support groups?

Narcotics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous, Ala-teen, Nar-Anon, SMART recovery, Celebrate Recovery

200

What are co-occurring disorders

When a client is diagnosed with both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder

200

How many counselors do we currently have?

Rachael, Autumn, Kenna, Garrett, and Laura (Sometimes Nate :))

200

What does PAWS stand for?

Post Acute Withdrawal Symptoms

300

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

300

3 barriers to recovery

Not much money, no insurance, no transportation, lack of care from case workers, motivation, legal issues, etc..
300

What are 3 characteristics of an addict?

Dishonesty, negative communication, difficulty regulating emotions, fatigued, etc...

300

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 

300

What are the 3 most common substances abused by teens?

Alcohol, Marijuana, and Nicotine

400

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

400

What is enabling an addict look like?

supporting them through their use by validating their behaviors, supporting their use through money, rides, and shelter if needed but refusing to allow the addict to take accountability of their situation
400

What are signs of a mental relapse before a physical one?

Decrease motivation, negative perspective, maybe going back to old places, people, and things they identified in early recovery are bad for them 
400

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)

400

Name 3 PAWS Symptoms

Difficulty controlling emotions, cravings, nerve pain, fatigue, brain fog, Sleep disturbances, Stress sensitivity

500

What happens in our brains when we practice using coping skills? (why your counselors tell you to practice coping skills)

After repeated and constant actions our brain will learn to adapt to that coping skills, hopefully, instead of thinking to use
500

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

500

How does Addiction affect our physical health?

Slower metabolism, tooth loss, vomiting, liver failure, infections, heart attacks, slows down development and health process 

500

How many years ago did ASC open?

43 years ago

500

What are 5 classifications (types) of drugs

Cannabis, Psychedelics, Stimulants, Narcotics, and Inhalants

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