Recovery 1
Information or an emergency plan to help an individual from using again. This plan could include 12 step information; important phone numbers, healthy recreational activities to participate in, and goals.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
True or False : Resilience is somebody's ability to recovery quickly from difficulties.
True
Name 2 specific coping skills.
Meditation, exercise, recreational activities, breathing, calling someone, journaling, etc.
An overwhelming emotional experience associated with wanting and/or seeking a drug.
What is craving?
Aggressive, Passive-Aggressive, Passive, Assertive
What are the four forms of communication?
The process by which the body rids itself of drugs
What is detox/withdrawal?
What CBT stands for
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Meaning of the acronym MAT
What is Medication Assisted Treatment
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
What is the Serenity Prayer?
This increases as you continue to use/drink, requiring you to need more of your substance to feel the same high, often causes the inability to return to former levels of use
What is tolerance
People, places or things that cause people to have thoughts associated with substance abuse. Can be internal and external.
What are triggers
Is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
What is dopamine
Refraining from all mood altering substances.
What is sobriety/abstinence?
Process that allows you to sit still, clear your mind and focus on breathing
What is meditation
Which step is as follows? Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What is Step Two?
Feelings of extreme sadness, shame, guilt and/or thoughts of hopelessness, and excessive sleep
What is depression
Give (someone or something) the authority or means to do something. Examples: making excuses for someone else, giving them money, calling in sick for them.
What is enabling or codependent behaviors
The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness, something you often do at the end of group
What is gratitude
Feelings of worry, racing thoughts and restlessness
What is anxiety
People that help you along your recovery journey.
What is a support network?
What 2 individuals started Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935?
Bill W and Dr. Bob
What is known as being cunning, baffling, and powerful?
Addiction
They help us manage our emotions related to difficult times to improve emotional health and help us grows as people. Behaviors, attitudes and approaches
Coping Skills
Which Step is as follows? We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable
Step One
Anger, humor, diversion, blaming, excuse making, denial, compromising
What are defenses/defense mechanisms?