Stage of Change
Coping Skills
Definitions
Treatment Team
Stage of Treatment
100

A client is ready and needs to plan to change the problem.

What is Preparation Stage of Change?

100

By physically moving your body, even in a small way, you can positively influence your mental state and thought patterns, essentially changing how you’re feeling or thinking by engaging your body through movement.

What is 'Move a muscle, change a thought'?

100

Refers to the active strategies implemented within the treatment program to empower individuals with both mental health and substance use disorders to make positive lifestyle changes, manage their conditions effectively and improve their overall health and well-being, going beyond just treating the symptoms.

What is a Health Promotion?

100

A neutral professional who provides education on treatment areas needed for clients to make better choices for themselves and guides the group through a process to help them achieve a goal.

What is a group facilitator?

100

This stage focuses on building rapport, establishing trust, and motivating the client to participate in treatment by addressing their concerns and understanding their readiness for change.

What is Engagement Stage of Treatment?

200

A client needs to actively make changes to the problem.

What is Action Stage of Change?

200

The seven common types of these include: physical, sexual, emotional/mental, spiritual, financial/material, time, and non-negotiable.

What are Boundaries?

200

The simultaneous presence of a mental health disorder and a substance use disorder within the same individual and describes the need for integrated treatment addressing both issues simultaneously.

What are Co-occurring Disorders?

200

A healthcare professional trained in treating individuals who have both a mental illness and a substance use disorder simultaneously, providing a coordinated approach to address both issues within a single treatment plan. This professional acts as a central coordinator on the team.

What is the ITCD Specialist?

200

This stage focus shifts towards helping the individual consider the benefits of changing their behaviors, addressing ambivalence, and providing information about their conditions and treatment options.

What is Early/Late Persuasion Stage of Treatment?

300

A client first needs to acknowledge a problem.

what is Pre-contemplation Stage of Change?

300

The app with the mission to provide effective, affordable, and personalized online resources to people who want to improve their overall wellness, and particularly their mental health.

What is MyStrength?

300

Continued empowerment for clients to identify their own barriers and find ways to overcome them with positive support from others. 

What are community support meetings?

300

A healthcare professional who is legally authorized to write prescriptions for medicine.

What is a Prescriber or Provider?

300

This stage focuses on the fact that the client has not acknowledged a problem.

What is Pre-engagement Stage of Treatment?

400

A client needs to sustain those changes made to that problem over time.

What is Maintenance Stage of Change?

400

Consciously directing your attention to the here and now, rather than dwelling on the past or worrying about the future.

What is 'One day at a time'?

400

An acronym for Integrated Treatment for Co-occurring Disorders which operates as simultaneous treatment for clients with substance use and mental health disorders.

What is ITCD?

400

A mental health professional who has recovered from a mental illness or substance use disorder and uses their experience to help others in similar situation.

What is a Certified Peer Support Specialist?

400

This stage focus shifts to identifying triggers, developing relapse prevention strategies, building a support network and preparing for ongoing recovery sustainability.

What is Relapse Prevention Stage of Treatment?

500

A client needs to consider changing the problem.

What is Contemplation Stage of Change?

500

The practice of taking care of your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. It involves recognizing what you need in the moment and taking action to meet those needs.

What is Personal Self-care?

500

Purpose is to improve outcomes for the client by improving engagement and effectiveness in handling the challenges associated with the problem and to improve the well-being of the caregiver as well to reduce stress and negative outcomes of care.

What are Family Interventions?

500

A healthcare professional who assists clients with coordinating and navigating care across the health and care system, helping them make the right connections, with the right teams at the right time, supporting them to become more active in their own health and care.

What is a Care Coordinator?

500

This stage involves the core interventions, including individual and group therapy, medication management (if needed), addressing co-occurring mental health and substance use issues simultaneously and developing coping mechanisms.

What is Early/Late Active Stage of Treatment?

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