CBT
Thoughts that a person has automatically in response to a trigger, often outside of that person's conscious awareness.
What are automatic thoughts?
The three stages of relapse.
What is emotional, mental, and physical relapse?
Method of inhaling through the nose for 4 counts and exhaling through the mouth for 6 counts.
What is deep breathing?
List examples of positive core beliefs...
I am a good person, I am lovable, I am worth it, I am deserving, I deserve to live, I deserve happiness, I do my best, I can be trusted, I can succeed, I am resilient, I am capable, I have choices, I continue to learn, etc...
Refers to actions and attitudes which contribute to the maintenance of well-being and personal health.
What is self-care?
Refers to the process of challenging, and changing, irrational thoughts.
What is cognitive restructuring?
Social, environmental or emotional factors that remind people in recovery of their past drug or alcohol use.
What are triggers?
A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances.
What is stress?
List ways to build self-esteem:
Positive affirmations, learn to accept compliments, eliminate self-criticism, development of identified competencies, prioritize meaningful activities, etc...
A person trained to give guidance on personal, social, or psychological problems.
What is a counselor/therapist?
Irrational thoughts that influence our emotions.
What are cognitive distortions?
Gives you too much time to be with your own thoughts.
What is isolation?
Major warning signs that the body is in distress.
Headache or migraine, muscle tension, restlessness, racing thoughts, fatigue, feeling overwhlemed.
A personal judgment of how well or poorly a person is able to cope with a given situation based on the skills they have and the circumstances they face.
What is self-efficacy?
Actively recording and writing down one's feelings, beliefs, thoughts, and experiences.
What is journaling?
A person’s most central ideas about themselves, others, and the world. These beliefs act like a lens through which every situation and life experience is seen.
What are core beliefs?
Anxiety, nausea, physical weakness are physical responses associated with this.
What is withdrawal?
A set of skills for coping with uncomfortable emotions.
What is distress tolerance?
A spirit or being that has great power, strength, knowledge, etc., and that can affect nature and the lives of people.
What is a higher power?
Is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other so that they may solve their common problems and help others to recover from addiction.
What is a self-help meeting?
A technique that is used to improve motivation and energy to complete basic, healthy life tasks.
What is behavioral activation?
The 3 components of addiction are...
What are obsession/compulsion, loss of control, and the continued use despite negative consequences?
Method of deep muscle relaxation, based on the premise that muscle tension is the body's psychological response to anxiety-provoking thoughts and that muscle relaxation blocks anxiety.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
The expression of concepts which encourage the development of an ideal performance state and are driving or self-enhancing.
What is positive self-talk?
Is a mind and body practice that has a long history of use for increasing calmness and physical relaxation, improving psychological balance, coping with illness, and enhancing overall health and well-being.
What is meditation?