Core Skills
This means recognizing any situation or possible situation that could stimulate you to use drugs, act violently, commit a crime or do something destructive.
What is Danger Spotting?
This means having basic human respect for whomever you are dealing with.
What is humanizing?
This means coming up with many possibilities adn choices instead of just one or two
What is brainstorming?
What is a Learner?
This is the 3rd step of intervention where we give you a specific activity or task that will help you become aware of the right behaviors or attitudes that should be utilized in the community.
What is a learning experience?
These all fit together. They are all about straightening out teh Inner Self and no longer being a slave to the Habit Self
What are Core Skills?
This means to give priority to something, to choose it as being more important than something else.
What is prioritizing?
This refers to Simple Techniques you can use on the spot to calm yourself down when you need quick relief and time to think.
What is Calming?
It is important that you know about these infectious diseases, how they are transmittable, and how to avoid contracting them.
HIV/AIDS & Hepatitis
This 5th and final step, before a discharge request, is a specific written agreement between the participant and the program team to address behaviors and complete assigned tasks.
What is a behavioral Contract?
This means thinking through what is likely to happen as a result of what you might do
What is Forecasting?
This means paying attention to your own thoughts and knowing whether they are coming form your habit self, or your inner self
What is Self-Listening
These Skills are the most basic abilities that we want you to learn
What are core skills?
We want you to develop THIS to help you prevent going back to your old ways of addiction.
What is a relapse prevention plan.
This first step of intervention includes a friendly verbal reminder or awareness that a rule of inappropriate conduct is being displayed. This tool is used as a courtesy before other interventions are utilized.
What is a verbal warning?
You do this when you make an honest effort to understand another point of view about any situation you are considering
What is view switching?
You use these skills to bring out your positive-but underdeveloped- Inner Self instead of your dangerous habit self
what are core skills
This is what you are doing when you are in group, and you are pulling your attention and energies back to a task when they seem to wander or when you are confused and can't seem to concentrate
What is Focusing?
We want you to develop a strong one of these so you can also develop a balanced lifestyle.
What is a work ethic.
This fourth step of intervention is provided by a panel of participants or peers. This is utilized after several other steps of intervention have been tried and have not been effective.
What is a Peer Accountability Group (PAG)
This physical action is a good way to initiate a greeting, and shows respect and positivity.
What is handshaking?
This means to communicate something that is important to you in a clear and constructive manner.
This means saying what is true, and means using an affirmation
What is affirming?
What are pro social?
This 2nd step of intervention is used after peers or participants have attempted to address issues with other less intensive interventions.
What is a Written Awareness?