Relationships,
Boundaries, and Communication
Boundaries, and Communication
What is a healthy response if someone gets angry when you set a boundary?
up to group discussion
Name 3 common coping skills that are used in recovery.
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True or False: Your behaviors are always the result of your thinking, whether you're fully aware of your thoughts or not
True
A set of emotional problems that can occur after someone has experienced a terrible, stressful life event.
What is PTSD?
Any situation that may lead you to relapse or strongly tempt you to relapse
What is a Trigger or High Risk Situation?
Expressing your own needs, wants, or feelings without violating the rights of others.
What is Assertiveness?
Demonstrate the 4 steps of box breathing.
Inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4, repeat until calm
the ability to evaluate information, make decisions, and form judgments based on facts and evidence rather than personal biases or emotions.
objective thinking
This is the most common mental health condition that impacts American adults.
Anxiety Disorder
Name the 3 types of medications offered through the MAT program.
Suboxone, Methadone, Naltrexone
What is an enabler? Who can be one?
someone who helps a person struggling with addiction continue their harmful behaviors. This can include providing financial support, housing, or even purchasing drugs or alcohol ect. Anyone
The practice of being aware and present in the moment without judgment.
Mindfulness
What is the difference between sympathy and empathy?
Sympathy: the ability to relate to and understand the feelings of someone else because you have gone through it yourself.
Empathy: the ability to relate to and understand the feelings of someone else because you can imagine what it is like to go through it
Simple: occurs from one traumatic event
Complex: multiple traumatic events
Name 5 examples of high risk situations.
up for group discussion
What are the 4 types of communication styles?
Aggressive, Passive-Aggressive, Passive, and Assertive
The ability to control or influence which emotions you have, when you have them, and how you experience and express them. This can be automatic as well as consciously controlled.
What is Emotion Regulation?
"I want it, and I want it now."
Instant Gratification
Research indicates that about ___% of individuals with substance use disorders also present with one or more diagnosed mental health issues, such as depression or anxiety.
50%
What is the difference between a lapse and relapse?
Lapse: a single event. (first drink/drug following a period of abstinence)
Relapse: patterns of consistent use
Name 4 types of boundaries.
physical, emotional, sexual, intellectual, material, and time
When writing a SMART goal, you should be very ___________ so it’s clear what you want to accomplish
specific
People entering recovery must realize that getting sober will not be enough to make everything rosy. The addict must learn to change his/her ______ to more realistic ones. The real world isn't all dazzling colors, but it isn't all drab and gray either.
Expectations
__________ alters the levels and activity of neurotransmitters, the brain's chemical messengers, to assist in alleviation of psychiatric symptoms
Meditation
What are the stages of change?
Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance, (Relapse?)