Stages of Change
Name the first stage in the 5 stages of change
What is: Precontemplation
Name a negative coping skill
What is: physical violence, drug use, tantrums, yelling, slamming doors, etc.
A Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline that includes breath control, simple meditation and the adoption of specific bodily postures
What is: Yoga
This substance dulls the parts of your brain that controls how your body works. This affects decision making and affects the liver most.
What is: Alcohol
This organ can regenerate but after long term abuse fatty "blank" disease develops in it.
What is: The Liver
Name the 3rd stage in the 5 Stages of Change
What is: The Preparation Stage
Name 3 positive coping skills
What is: Exercising, art, or support groups
An adaptation to environmental stress that is based on the conscious or unconscious choice and that enhances control over behavior or gives psychological comfort
What is: A Coping Skill
This drug irritates the lungs and is a psychoactive (mind altering) drug.
What is: Marijuana
This muscle is at the center of the circulation system and after it is abused it can cause blood clots, increased plaque buildup and blood vessel cell damage.
What is: The Heart
Someone that is monitoring themselves to stay on track is in what stage of change?
What is: the Maintenance Stage
The inability to defend oneself or to act effectively. This feeling leads to depression.
What is: A therapist
An opioid drug made from morphine that causes a rush or euphoria. Effects include dry mouth, heavy feelings in the arms and legs, and clouded mental functioning.
When substances are abused, this organ may respond via seizures, memory lapse, and poor decision making.
What is: The Brain
Someone who has researched, listed pros and cons and made a plan is in what stage of change?
What is: Preparation Stage
How we react when we feel under pressure or threatened. This feeling usually happens when we are in a situation that we don't feel we can manage or control.
What is: Stress
(Blank) is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
What is: Dopamine
A powerful, highly addictive stimulant that affects the central nervous system that produces feelings of euphoria and increased energy. Can cause weight loss, rotting teeth, and paranoia.
What is: Methamphetamine
This organs main job is to cleanse the blood of toxins and transform waste into urine. When abused by substances, this organ is associated with chronic infections and inflammation.
What is: The Kidneys
Name the 5 stages of change. (If you can name 6, bonus 100 points!)
What is: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. Bonus: Relapse
This hormone, also called the stress hormone, increases sugars in the bloodstream and is responsible for the "Fight or Flight" response.
What is: Cortisol
Confidence in one's own worth or abilities
What is: Self-Esteem
This drug causes faster heart rate, raised body temperature and can lead to panic attacks or heart attacks. This drug speeds up messages traveling between the brain and rest of the body.
What is: Cocaine
This organ acts as a reservoir for acid secretion and enzyme secretion. This organ is right before the duodenum and when abused can cause acid reflux, constipation, or vomiting.
What is: The Stomach