Safety
The 3 stages of healing from PTSD and substance abuse.
What is Safety, Mourning and Reconnection?
A set of emotional problems that can occur after someone has experienced a terrible, stressful life event.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
A set of simple strategies to detach from emotional pain so that you can gain control over your feelings and stay safe.
What are Grounding Techniques?
Compulsive use of a substance resulting in physical, psychological, or social harm.
What is Substance Abuse?
This coping skill involves reaching out to someone safe for support during challenging moments.
What is Asking for Help?
A space, i.e., the beach, your therapist's office, your room, that helps you feel calm and connected.
What is a Safe Place?
The two types of PTSD.
What are Simple PTSD and Complex PTSD?
The three major ways of grounding.
What are Mental, Physical and Soothing?
When choosing one of the 3 ways to give up substances, this is the abstinence model developed in AA; it's also called quitting "cold turkey."
What is Quit all at once?
For both PTSD and substance abuse, this is essential for recovery.
What is Other People's Help?
Asking for help, setting boundaries in a relationship, prioritizing healing are all examples of this.
What are Safe Coping Skills?
Repeated incidents such as domestic violence or ongoing childhood abuse.
What is Complex PTSD?
Focusing on your senses (e.g., touch, hearing, smell, taste and sight).
What is Physical Grounding?
Alternating between wanting to recover from substance abuse and then not wanting to.
What are Mixed Feelings (ambivalence)?
Mrs. Bright, Ms. Wheeler, Ms. Mouzone, Ms. Lockey, Ms. Scott, Ms. Watson, Ms. Gibson.
Who are People we can Ask for Help?
In this stage of healing, you will find yourself more willing and able to experience the world in joyful ways, relate and work well to others, thrive and enjoy life.
What is Reconnection?
The two main themes of PTSD and Substance abuse.
What are Secrecy and Control?
This type of grounding encourages describing your environment in detail, saying a safe statement, using humor and more.
What is Mental Grounding?
Informal gatherings of people who support each other through a shared challenge or issue i.e., Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Gamblers Anonymous, (GA), Cocaine Anonymous (CA).
What are Self-Help Groups?
Strategies to manage distressing memories or situations.
What are Coping Skills?
These are the key indicators that someone has made significant progress in healing from trauma, including being able to talk about the trauma without becoming emotionally overwhelmed, function in daily life, build healthy relationships, and care for oneself both physically and emotionally.
What are the signs of recovery?
The symptoms associated with PTSD.
What are intrusion, avoidance, arousal and lower functioning?
Saying kind statements, thinking of favorites, picturing people you care about, and remembering a safe place are all examples of this. say a coping statement
What is Soothing?
A metaphorical concept signifying the "peak" or highest point of recovery, representing the goal of achieving sustained sobriety and a stable life free from substance abuse, often used in the context of describing a person's journey through addiction treatment and recovery.
What is Mount Recovery?
This method helps patients identify a current situation that would benefit from asking for help, and process how to go about it. The goal of this method is to get patients out of the assumptions "in their heads" and into finding out "what's real."
What is an Approach Sheet?