CBT
What does CBT stand for?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
What mental health concern involves harmful thoughts and feelings that affect the way people feel about their body
Eating Disorder
Information or an emergency kit to help an individual from using again. This kit could include 12 step information, important phone numbers, healthy recreational activities to participate in.
Relapse Prevention Plan
What does the first step of AA tell us?
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
What coping skill involves writing down any thoughts, difficulties, progress, gratitude, or things to discuss during therapy sessions?
Journaling
What are the 3 things CBT correlates?
Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Negative thoughts or feelings toward self
Self-stigma
What is the fastest addicting drug?
Nicotine
This refers to the process in which people are able to live, work, learn and participate fully in their communities.
Recovery
What coping skill encourages tensing and then relaxing the different muscle groups?
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
The first time Melissa went to a casino, she won $300 playing blackjack. She left the casino elated, determined that casino blackjack would become her new hobby as this was an easy and sure way to make money. What cognitive distortion is apparent in Melissa's thinking?
Overgeneralization
Eating and sleeping too little or too much is a symptom of
Depression or Anxiety
What is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
Dopamine
What does Step 8 of AA tell us?
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Utilizing the 5 senses (taste, touch, sound, sight, smell) in moments when feeling anxious or disconnected from oneself is considered what?
Grounding
A cognitive distortion where we tend to magnify the positive attributes of another person, while minimizing our own positive attributes. You talk-down all your positive attributes and accomplishments in order to lower people’s expectations. In other words, you are effectively devaluing yourself, while at the same time putting the other person on a pedestal.
Magnification and minimization
Nirvanas 1992 hit is named after this common mood stabilizing medication
Lithium
Detoxification from what two classes of drugs is the most dangerous?
Alcohol and Benzos
Which step asks you to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of your past?
Step 4
What are 2 examples of mindfulness skills?
meditation, grounding, yoga, breathing exercises, etc...
A cognitive distortion where we tend to blow circumstances out of proportion. In other words, we make things out to be a lot worse than they should be.
Catastrophizing
Affecting about 15 million Americans, this is the most common anxiety disorder and the third most common mental disorder in the US.
Social Anxiety
What popular drug was originally used as a non-addictive, safe remedy for morphine addiction?
Heroin
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
the Serenity Prayer
What are 2 examples of distraction skills?
Puzzles, books, art, crafts, knitting, music, movies, sudoku, crossword puzzles, etc..
This cognitive distortion is when we tend to make irrational assumptions about people and circumstances.We for instance assume that something will happen in the future (predictive thinking), or assume that we know what someone else is thinking (mind reading).
Jumping to conclusions
Myth or Fact: Depression is not a normal part of the aging process.
What is Fact... (It is not normal for older adults to be depressed. Signs of depression in older people include loss of interest in activities, sleep disturbances, and lethargy. Depression in the elderly is often undiagnosed, and it is important for seniors and their family members to recognize the problem and seek professional help.)
The first stage of treatment for addiction
Detox
An estimated 16 million people in the U.S. have this type of disease, yet only a small percentage of those individuals seek treatment.
Alcohol Use Disorder
What coping skills involves writing down negative automatic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to help identify thought patterns?
Automatic thought record
A cognitive distortion where we tend to see things as all-or-nothing. Things are either good or bad, right or wrong. In other words, we only see the extremes of the situation. We either see one extreme or another — there is no middle ground, nor shades of gray.
Black and white thinking
Funny guy Jim Carrey suffers from this disorder
Depression
For the best chance of staying sober, what is the MINIMUM length of time a person should stay in treatment?
90 days
What is the correct (official) name of AA's basic text?
Alcoholics Anonymous...The "Big Book" is a commonly held misconception. "Big Book" is actually a nickname given to the volume in the years between the publications of the first and second editions.
This writing prompt is used when someone is experiencing grief and in recovery from a substance use disorder. It aims to help with moving forward and starting a new path, while saying "see ya" to the past.
A goodbye letter
a cognitive distortion where we tend to make unrealistic and unreasonable demands on ourselves, and on others. You might for instance say, “I must… I should… You must… You should…”.
Should-ing and must-ing
This type of stress can cause us to age and have bad health; things like worrying about work, school, relationships, etc.
Distress
According to page 417 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, what is the answer to all my problems today?
Acceptance
Three indispensable spiritual principles in the 12 step fellowship are? (hint, think of H.O.W.)
honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness.
In positive psychology research, this is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. It helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships. People feel and express this in multiple ways.
Gratitude