Therapeutic Terms
This is the therapeutic model that focuses on thoughts, feelings, and emotions to explain mental health and substance use issues.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT?
If you find yourself having a desire to drink or get high and you are debating what to do, this is a great tool to think about what will happen in your mind until the very end.
What is playing the tape through?
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
What is step two?
This member helps you navigate membership, answer questions, work on the 12-steps, and offer accountability.
What is a sponsor?
This is a biopsychosocial disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences.
What is addiction?
An evaluation one makes of how much value they see themselves as having, both to others and within the world. In other words, a self judgement of worth.
What is self-esteem?
This skills involves using other activities to take your mind off of the cravings or urges that may occur.
What is distraction?
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is step four?
This 24/7, free and confidential lifeline supports and provides prevention and crisis resources for people in distress.
What is National Suicide Prevention Hotline?
The combination of physical and mental effects that a person experiences after they stop using or reduce their intake of a substance such as alcohol and prescription or recreational drugs.
What is withdrawal?
This defense mechanism occurs when you attribute your concerns to another individual.
What is projection?
This acronym is used to describe four states of being, or triggers, that may induce cravings or cause someone to feel "off."
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
What is step six?
These are individuals who have lived experience with substance use or co-occurring mental health disorders.
What are certified recovery specialists (CRS)?
A state of being where an individual is affected by alcohol or drugs especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished especially.
What is intoxication?
What are the id, ego, and superego?
This skills can be used when feeling overwhelmed with worry or craving to place yourself back into the present environment. One common example is the "5-4-3-2-1" technique.
What are grounding skills?
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is step nine?
This organization aims to help relatives, friends, coworkers, and others affected by the drinking of people they know.
What is Al-Anon?
Refers to the body getting used to taking a substance and requiring higher doses.
What is tolerance?
This is the term that refers to a mismatch between your thoughts, beliefs, or actions that creates an unpleasant feeling.
For example: Someone who smokes cigarettes daily but states “I want to live a long time and smoking damages my health."
What is cognitive dissonance?
Rather than giving in to an urge, this technique focuses on riding out the urge similar to waves in the ocean.
What is urge surfing?
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
What is step eleven?
Serving as an alternative to AA or NA, this organization helps individuals seeking abstinence from substances with research-based and non-confrontational motivational methods.
What is SMART Recovery?
The physical or psychological symptoms that occur that make someone feel like they must continue taking a substance
What is dependence?