Session 47a
A ________ ______ is an organized group of services and interventions provided for clients.
treatment program
There are ___________________________ different categories of symptom severity for substance use and mental health symptoms.
four
The focus of your recovery will not be on the specific drug you used, but on the ______ of getting clean and sober
process
______ ______, when someone tells the story of his or her addiction and recovery.
Speakers meetings
A commitment to sobriety involves _______.which can often make you feel vulnerable.
honesty
Treatment programs will often focus on ______________________ target groups.
specialized
In category ______________________, both mental health and substance use symptoms are more severe
four
What these two men learned in the 1930s was that people who share an addiction are able to provide a great deal of lifesaving support to one another. What is this called?
fellowship
____ _____ _____, which focus on reading a chapter from AA’s Big Book, often a story about someone’s personal experience or a recovery-related topic.
Big Book meetings
To _____ people means to believe they are honest and will keep their word. And that is exactly the opposite of addicted behavior and thinking
trust
Although treatment programs have varying policies and procedures, their rules about ____________________________ are usually similar.
confidentiality
In category two, mental health symptoms are _________ _____________ , but substance use symptoms are ________ _____ .
more severe, less severe
There is only one requirement for membership in a Twelve Step fellowship:
that the person must have the desire to stop using alcohol or other drugs
______ _____, which involve a discussion on a specific subject, such as fellowship, honesty, acceptance, or patience. At these meetings, everyone is given a chance to talk, but no one is forced to.
Topic meetings
Name three things that sponsors do for you.
1. Sponsors help the newcomer by answering questions and explaining the Twelve Step recovery process.
2. Sponsors agree to be available to talk, to listen to your difficulties and frustrations, and to share their own insights and solutions.
3. Sponsors make suggestions to help you solve problems. They can do this based on their experience with long-term sobriety. What worked for your sponsor will often work for you, although sometimes it may not.
4. Sponsors agree to keep your secrets and feelings confidential and to protect your anonymity.
5. Sponsors are often the first people to know when their “sponsees” experience a slip or relapse. At those times, sponsors push their sponsees to attend more meetings or get other help.
Treatment programs often have different areas of _______________________________ .
expertise
A person has severe substance use symptoms but relatively mild or moderate mental health symptoms.
three
_____-____ is a situation in which one person with a problem (such as addiction) helps another who has the same problem.
self help
________ _____, when the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of the program are discussed
Step/Tradition meetings
_____ ______ also distinguishes itself from Twelve Step groups in that it doesn’t ask people to label themselves as an addict or alcoholic, and it doesn’t use sponsors. It expects that members will stop going to meetings after they feel they’ve gotten sober
SMART recovery
In general, a _______ ______ is a group of several different treatment programs and treatment services.
treatment system
An ________ system of care means that the mental health and substance use systems are linked together.
integrated
What do DTR, DDA and DRA stand for?
*must get all correct to receive points!
Double Trouble in Recovery (DTR), Dual Diagnosis Anonymous (DDA), and Dual Recovery Anonymous (DRA)
Twelve Step meetings work because:
answers will vary
Thank you for sharing!
______ ____ ____ (_ _ _) was created by Jean Kirkpatrick, who first got sober in AA. She observed, though, that women were less likely to get sober in Twelve Step groups than men, and therefore, she wanted to create a self-help program that would better meet the needs of women by empowering them rather than making them feel guilty over past behavior.
Women for Sobriety (WFS)