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The scale used to rate mood during morning meeting a wrap up that allows you to define a definite neutral mood.
What is -5 to 5?
This self-help book was written by Russ Harris and acts as the basis for our ACT groups.
What is "The Happiness Trap"?
These urges have either a physical or psychological cause and can cause an individual to return to substance use. Learning skills to combat these are essential for a person's recovery.
What are cravings?
This is needed before a client can participate in our Managing Emotions groups.
What is a referral?
Learning these can help an individual get through times of distress.
What are coping skills?
We try to come up with these in a SMART way in order to work towards something important.
What are goals?
Unlike an observation, this type of interpretation is affected by our past experiences and current mood.
What is a judgment?
The Damage Control group help clients prepare strategies to better manage this event.
What is a slip/relapse?
This type of psychotherapy is the basis of the Managing Emotions groups.
What is DBT (Dialetical Behaviour Therapy)?
The amount of "steps" in the self-help groups offered to patients in the hospital. (i.e. AA, NA, CA, DRA)
What is 12?
Usually only 1-2 words long, these are the important things that make a life worth living.
What are Values?
Discovering what values someone holds, and how to make a life worth living, is the focus of this ACT group.
What is Finding Purpose?
This feeling of uncertainty is very common when making a change. Working through it is the main focus of groups for clients in the Contemplative stage of change.
What is ambivalence?
The balance between reasonable mind and emotional mind, this state helps us make difficult decisions and is very personal and unique.
What is Wise Mind?
What are group norms?
This type of activity is added at the end of wrap-up group to promote a healthy end of the day.
What is mindfulness?
This acronym describes the things that get in the way of us accomplishing our goals. It involves: Fusion with negative thoughts, Excessive goals, Avoidance of discomfort, and Remoteness from values.
What is FEAR?
Learning how to set these personal limits is essential to building supportive, meaningful relationships.
What are boundaries?
The Radical Acceptance Module is part of this set of skills which helps clients to get through difficult situations, without changing them.
What are Distress Tolerace skills?
Happify groups are based on this branch of psychology.
What is Positive Psychology?
During wrap-up group, a client scores each of the activities they completed throughout the day by 2 measures. The first is importance and the second is this.
What is enjoyment?
These "separating" skills help by creating distance between ourselves, and our thoughts and feelings, so that they have less of a hold over us.
What are Defusion skills?
Also known as PAWS, this group of symptoms can persist for many months up to a few years after cessation of substance use.
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
The DEAR MAN module is part of this group of skills, which involve changing how we interact with other people.
What are Interpersonal Effectiveness skills?
This type of group focuses more on sharing information, rather than discussion-based learning.
What is psychoeducational?