Levels of Needs
Clue: The most basic human needs required for simple survival, such as food and water.
Answer: Biological needs.
Clue: The total number of relationship factors taught by psychologist Janet Woititz.
Answer: Twelve.
Clue: A primary reason for returning to substance use during recovery.
Answer: Staying close with friends and acquaintances who still use substances.
Clue: The primary group responsible for meeting a child's basic needs like food, shelter, and love.
Answer: A family.
Clue: The specific type of support for parents that involves other people and agencies who help with the job of raising children.
Answer: Social support.
Clue: This level of need includes having a stable job, a safe place to live, and financial security.
Answer: Safety needs.
Clue: The specific factor defined as the willingness to let down barriers and allow another person to affect your feelings.
Answer: Vulnerability.
Clue: Emotional or social growth stops because this intense drive becomes a greater priority than basic human needs.
Answer: Alcohol and other drug use (or active addiction).
Clue: The specific type of family consisting of two parents and their children living in one household.
Answer: A nuclear family.
Clue: The foundational personal quality for self-growth that involves being comfortable with unpredictability rather than demanding absolute control.
Answer: Tolerating uncertainty in life.
Clue: Feeling good about oneself, which strengthens when individuals achieve realistic goals and receive positive feedback.
Answer: Positive self-esteem.
Clue: The relationship factor defined as the degree to which you allow yourself to feel what other people feel.
Answer: Empathy.
Clue: The major shift required in recovery to move away from a destructive, self-centered lifestyle.
Answer: Rediscovering healthy relationships.
Clue: A supportive group composed of friends, neighbors, and community members rather than biological relatives.
Answer: A family of choice (or chosen family).
Clue: A hidden social influence that groups of friends possess regarding what is important and how a member should act.
Answer: Unspoken rules and expectations (or hidden influences).
Clue: Abraham Maslow's term for the process of finding personal growth qualities and becoming the best person possible.
Answer: Self-actualization.
Clue: The core idea of recovery where people depend on one another for a common good by cooperating and sharing resources.
Answer: Interdependence.
Clue: A common sign of healthy recovery that involves returning to old hobbies and surrounding yourself with people who do not use substances.
Answer: Spending time with friends who don't use substances.
Clue: The country where a 2000s orphanage study proved that severe emotional neglect permanently damages a child's brain development.
Answer: Romania (Bucharest).
Clue: The family type described as one of the most common forms in the world, which includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Answer: An extended family.
Clue: The psychological theory developed to describe the stages people go through along the path to reaching their full potential.
Answer: The hierarchy of needs (or Levels of Needs).
Clue: Family members who uniquely shape a person's early experiences with trust, cooperation, competition, and honesty.
Answer: Siblings (or brothers and sisters).
Clue: An unproductive emotion that parents are encouraged to move past in support groups instead of blaming themselves for past harms.
Answer: Guilt.
Clue: Recommended parenting strategies used to teach children self-discipline instead of using physical punishment.
Answer: Time-outs and positive reinforcement.
Clue: The specific quality of self-growth that involves embracing internal dichotomies like weakness and strength, or love and hate.
Answer: Accepting apparent opposites within yourself.