Coping Skills
This term refers to any healthy action you take to manage stress, emotions, or difficult situations.
What is a coping skill?
Any person, place, thing, or emotion that creates cravings or distress is called this.
What is a trigger?
Writing about your feelings and thoughts to increase awareness and release stress is known as this.
What is journaling?
Returning to substance use after a period of sobriety is called this.
What is a relapse?
The ability to recognize your own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors is called this.
What is self-awareness?
This technique helps bring your awareness back to the present moment when anxiety or panic hits.
What is grounding?
This type of trigger comes from thoughts or emotions rather than outside situations.
What is an internal trigger?
Recognizing and naming this is the first step to regulating it.
What is an emotion?
Emotional, mental, and physical are the three stages of this process.
What are the stages of relapse?
This term describes distorted or negative patterns of thinking that impact mood and behavior.
What is a cognitive distortion?
In this breathing method, you inhale for four seconds, hold for seven, and exhale for eight.
What is 4-7-8 breathing?
True or False: Every trigger automatically leads to relapse.
What is False?
Taking deep breaths, grounding, or using cold water are physical ways to do this/
What is calm the body?
Isolation, poor self-care, bottling up emotions are early warning signs of this first stage.
What is an emotional relapse?
Living in alignment with your values and true self - not your addiction - defines this concept.
What is the authentic self?
This type of plan lists steps, people, and resources to help keep you safe in crisis situations.
What is a safety plan?
Being around people who use, boredom, or high stress are examples of these situations.
What are high-risk situations?
The "TIP" skill and "Opposite Action" are examples of these DBT strategies.
What are emotion regulation skills?
This key document outlines triggers, support, and coping skills to prevent returning to use.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
This therapy model focuses on identifying and changing negative thought patterns.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Emotional, physical, and cognitive are three types of these helpful tools
What are coping strategies?
This plan helps identify triggers and create strategies to prevent relapse.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
DBT, a therapy that teaches emotion regulation and mindfulness, stands for this.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?
True or False: A relapse always means complete failure in recovery.
What is False?
Icreased insight, healthier choices, and emotional control are benefits of developing this skill.
What is self-awareness?