Thinking Errors
This is the term used in Pathways for the mental tricks, excuses, or inaccurate perceptions a person uses to justify their harmful behavior. - another term for thinking errors
cognitive distortions
The Pathways workbook teaches this clear, modern standard, meaning that agreement must be active, enthusiastic, and mutual.
Consent (yes-means-yes consent)
This core treatment goal requires a youth to genuinely step into the shoes of the person they harmed and understand the emotional pain caused by their choices.
victim empathy
The part in the cycle after you have a problem situation where you feel upset and frustrated is known as
Feeling Fed up
Focusing on slowly taking breaths in and out to calm down when angry or anxious.
Deep breathing
When a youth says, "It's not my fault, they shouldn't have left their phone unlocked," they are using a thinking error known as this.
Blaming/Justifying
True consent cannot happen if a person uses threats, trickery, or emotional pressure to get what they want, which is known by this term.
Coercion
Your Family, Peers, and Staff who are by your side to help you understand your sexual and behavioral problems are known as your what.
Support system/Treatment team
This is the part of your maintenance cycle when you isolate yourself, blaming others for your situation, and use thinking errors and excuses to justify
Victim stance
Use this coping skill to distract yourself when you are thinking of negative actions or offending behaviors
Thought stopping/thought switching.
This specific thinking error occurs when a youth ignores the harm they caused, and convinces themselves that they are the one at a loss
Victim stance
This term describes the imbalance that occurs when one person in a relationship thinks they are bigger, holding their authority over the other person, making true, free consent impossible.
Power and control
This "R-word" refers to the actions a youth takes to actively make amends or pay back the community or individual for the damage they caused.
Restitution
When everything is going just fine on the surface, daily feelings and thoughts
Usual state
Pleasant imagery
This error happens when a person thinks they already know exactly what someone else is thinking or feeling without actually communicating with them.
assuming/'mind-reading'
In healthy communication, checking in with your partner and asking questions like "Are you still comfortable with this?" or "Do you want to stop?" is known as what type of ongoing consent
Verbal consent (continuous consent)
Before a youth can write a meaningful apology letter, they must completely stop doing this to their past behavior, which makes the harm seem smaller than it actually was.
Minimizing
This is a maintenance behavior that can lead to re-offending
Gateway behaviors
When you excuse yourself from the situation, avoiding all and any confrontation to avoid a lapse or SUD
Escape
This thinking error happens when you put off your problems, pushing them away for later
Distant Elephants.
Name 5 parts of the consent bridge
Same level emotionally, Appropriate age, honesty, both say yes, permission to say no, both understand what is going to happen, no impaired thinking(sober), equal intelligence
Showing empathy for those you hurt because of your actions/offense through writing a letter to your victim, their parents, and your parents.
Clarification letters
Fighting, stealing, and breaking the rules are examples of what stage of the maintenance cycle
Negative action/Lapses
This coping skill is used to calm you down and ground you in tense environments, using numbers
Counting down/backwards.