Defense Mechanisms
A student who is angry at her teacher for a low grade lashes out at her roommate, who is a safer target of her anger.
What is displacement?
37% of relapses are attributed to this trigger
What are negative emotional states (anxiety, depression)?
The brain’s natural ability to change its wiring patterns in response to life experience.
What is neuroplasticity?
Personality test that helps us see ourselves at a deeper, more objective level and includes 9 main types, 27 sub-types
What is the enneagram test?
This skill describes being able to understand other people’s emotions and then offering comfort and support.
What is empathy?
Disguising one’s own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
What is projection?
Genetic predisposition contributes x% to developing alcohol use disorder?
What is 50-60%?
Part of the brain associated with emotion, memory, reward system, stress, and fight or flight response
What is the amygdala?
A personality trait that represents the willingness to try new things and think outside the box.
What is openness?
This skill describes building and maintaining relationships and engaging in effective communication.
What are social skills?
A young child is bitten by a dog, develops a phobia of dogs but has no memory of when or how the fear originated
What is repression?
Substance use disorders have a lower rate of relapse than these two chronic illnesses.
What are hypertension and asthma?
The neurotransmitter that underlies motivation, focuses attention on and drives people to pursue specific goals.
What is dopamine?
A personality trait in which someone draws energy from other people and seeks social connections or interaction.
What is extraversion?
This skill describes the ability to recognize one’s own emotions and understand how they influence one’s own actions.
What is self-awareness?
Retreating to an earlier, more childlike, and safer stage of development
What is regression?
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is approximate x times more potent than morphine.
What is 50 times more potent?
On average, the brain weighs this amount in lbs
What is 3 pounds?
A personality trait relating to the desire to be careful, diligent, and to regulate immediate gratification with self-discipline.
What is conscientiousness?
This skill describes the ability to manage emotions in a healthy way and to adapt to changing circumstances.
What is self-regulation?
A person participates in sports to divert aggressive drives.
What is sublimation?
With methamphetamine use disorder, after x months of abstinence, the brain returns to a more healthy baseline.
What is 14 months?
The brain runs on only x watts of electricity - enough to power an LED light bulb.
What is 25 watts?
A personality trait related to a tendency toward negative personality traits, emotional instability, and self-destructive thinking.
What is neuroticism?
This describes one’s personal drive to improve and achieve, commitment to one’s goals, initiative, or readiness to act on opportunities as well as optimism and resilience.
What is motivation?