Aftercare
What is the average length of stay for a PHP completion?
What is 28- 30 days
What are the three stages of relapse?
What is an emotional relapse, mental relapse, and physical relapse.
What is the DBT skill used for de-escalation?
What is the STOP SKILL
What is the difference between triggers and cravings?
Triggers are associated with thoughts or memories and cravings are more physical, mental and emotional.
Who wrote the big book?
Who is Bill and Bob
What do all addicts have in common?
What is believing willpower is enough to beat addiction.
When is the most common time to relapse?
What is within 30 days of leaving treatment.
A negative feeling caused by a particular action, process or situation (person, place, or things)
What is a trigger
What are two categories of triggers?
Internal and external.
Which step requires you to take a personal inventory upon yourself?
What is step four
For the best chance of staying sober, what is the MINIMUM length of time a person should stay in treatment?
What is 90 days.
What are the top three factors that contribute to relapse?
Dangerous people, places and thoughts.
Name a coping skill that releases endorphins.
What is exercise.
The phenomena that occurs within the mind that can effect thoughts, emotions and behaviors.
What is an craving or urge.
Which step requires you to make amends with others?
What is step nine
This act allows a person to do whatever they want and need in the moment.
What is self-care.
What does the big book of AA say about relapse?
What is “those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to the simple program. Usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.”
This category of coping skills includes watching movies, reading books or engaging in something for a time being.
What is a distraction.
When triggered what are some methods to alleviate the impulsive feelings?
What is reaching out to your sober supports, go to a meeting, pray and meditate, go to your safe place mentally, or do an act of service.
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.
What is the serenity prayer.
What is the percentage of people that remain sober for 1 year after completing a 90 day program?
What is 25-30%.
Where does relapse begin?
What is in the mind.
This phenomena lights up every area of your brain all at once.
What is music.
This act helps a person handle urges through going through potential consequences.
What is playing the tape through.
Three indispensable spiritual principles in the 12 step fellowship are? (hint, think of H.O.W.)
What are honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness.