Recovery
Triggers
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Coping Skills
True or False
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100

This is what PHP stands for.

What is Partial Hospitalization Program?

100

These are impulsive urges to use substances that have a physiological basis.

What are cravings?

100

A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential  

What is recovery?

100

One way to cope is to _______ yourself from the stressor.

What is remove/distance?

100

True or False: It is possible to have withdrawal symptoms for up to two years after you stop using drugs or alcohol. 

What is True? Bonus points for writing the full name of the phenomenon.

100

A type of meditation led by an expert to take you  through the basic steps of your meditation practice.  

What is a guided meditation?

200

In the AA book, alcohol is referred to with these 3 adjectives.

What is cunning, baffling, powerful?

200

Two common types (categories) of triggers are External and __________. 

What is Internal?

200

When someone who is recovering from an addiction returns to using drugs or alcohol, or gambling, after a period of sobriety.

What is relapse?

200

This is being thankful for what you have. Often counselors will ask you to make a list of these daily to help improve your overall health.

What is gratitude?

200

True or False: Testing yourself by going to the liquor store, by hanging out with people using drugs or alcohol, etc. is a good way to make you stronger. 

 What is False?

200

These are the methods used to tolerate and deal with difficult or stressful situations.

What are coping skills?

300

Holding onto anger and refusing to forgive someone for a wrongdoing is called _____________.

What is a resentment?

300

You should "H.A.L.T." when you feel triggered, and check for these feelings. 

What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired?

300

This is an individual’s ability to cope with adversity and adapt to challenges or change. This develops over time and gives an individual the capacity not only to cope with life’s challenges but also to be better prepared for the next stressful situation.

What is resiliency?

300

Activity that can improve sleep, increase energy, reduce stress and anxiety, improve well-being, and increase mental alertness. 

What is exercise?

300

True or False: Having a using dream about using drugs or alcohol means that you are destined to relapse. 

What is False?

300

Meetings such as AA, NA, Al-Anon; SMART Recovery, Celebrate Recovery, and Regeneration are examples of ________ groups.

What is support?

400

This is the fifth and final stage in the Stages of Change model (also known as the Transtheoretical Model) where individuals have successfully maintained a new behavior for at least six months and are focused on preventing relapse and integrating the new behavior into their lifestyle to make it automatic and habitual.

What is the maintenance stage?

400

This is a crucial neurotransmitter and hormone that plays a major role in the brain's reward system, motivation, memory, and motor control. Often called the "feel-good" chemical.

What is dopamine?

400
A mental state focusing awareness on the present moment; calmly acknowledging and accepting feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.

What is Mindfulness?

400

Any healthy, deliberate activity, intended to nourish your mental, emotional, and/or physical wellbeing.

What is self care?

400

True or False: It is best to keep using thoughts, dreams,  cravings, to yourself because talking about them will make them worse.

What is False?

400

This is what DBT stands for.

What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy?

500

"What fires together wires together" is an example of _______________. Your brain is malleable and changes with what you repeatedly do or think.

What is Neuroplasticity?

500

This type of trigger involves a sight or image that can prompt someone to use drugs or alcohol again by activating a subconscious response in the brain.

What is a visual trigger?

500

This is the area of the brain located beneath the basal ganglia that regulates the brain's reactions to stress, including behavioral responses like “fight or flight” and negative emotions like unease, anxiety, and irritability.

What is the amygdala?

500

This is a practice that may include focusing your attention, reducing distractions, and non-judgmental observation.

What is meditation?

500

True or False: The odds of maintaining sobriety are the same for people who willingly go to rehab as they are for people who are court-ordered to go to rehab. 

What is True?

500

Some people use emotions to make their decisions while others use logic or reason. DBT _____-____, uses a little of each.

What is Wise-Mind?

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