Relapse Prevention
A long (often life-long) process of learning to change thinking, behaviors, habits, and develop a healthier way of living.
What is recovery?
People, places, and things.
What are external triggers?
Learning to regulate feelings of anger or show them in a healthier way.
What is anger management?
A useful tool for time management, especially when first starting recovery.
What is scheduling?
A thought or feeling that creates a craving to use drugs.
What are internal triggers?
Strategies used to manage stress, adjust to life changes, and maintain emotional and physical well-being.
What are coping skills?
An emotion that may lead to relapse, may be shown in several different healthy or unhealthy ways, often is due to other feelings, and will often build up if not addressed.
What is anger?
Activities or behaviors someone does in recovery instead of drugs or alcohol.
What is replacement culture?
A saying that reminds us that we can usually make it through any given day or challenge and to try to not be overwhelmed by fears of the future.
What is "one day at a time" or "this too shall pass?"
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time Orientated goals.
What are SMART goals?
Something we need to stay sober. In addiction we are often not this way with ourselves, our families/loved ones, and others.
What is truthfulness / honesty?
A plan that may involve writing down likely triggers, and feelings or thoughts we may have when feeling triggered as well as skills we can use to cope with those feelings or thoughts.
What is a safety plan / relapse prevention plan?
Thoughts or excuses our brain makes to justify returning to old using habits.
What is a relapse justification?
The series of triggers, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors that may lead back to old habits.
What is the relapse cycle?
Feeling bad about something we have done, instead of feeling ashamed of ourself as a person. It is due to not following our values or morals and is something that we can work towards fixing or making up for.
What is guilt?
Not a failure, but part of the process of recovery and learning to stay sober.
What is relapse?
A short way to check-in with how you are doing and remind yourself that we are more vulnerable to relapse or triggers when feeling certain physical feelings or emotional states.
What is HALT?
A chronic, treatable medical disease characterized by compulsive substance use or behavior that continues despite harmful consequences.
What is the definition of addiction?
A document written with both the clinician and client/patient about goals.
What is a treatment plan?