Relapse Prevention
This is a therapeutic tool that supports you with compiling your personal triggers, supports, resources, and coping skills to manage cravings and urges and to reduce risk of relapse
Relapse Prevention Plan
Weighing _____ and ______ is a helpful strategy when deciding how you want to do in a difficult situation
Pros and cons
This coping skill or practice encourages us to intentionally practice noticing and appreciating the positive people, moments, and aspects of life
Gratitude
Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet star in this 2018 biographical drama film depicting a father son relationship navigating addiction
A Beautiful Boy (2018)
What year was AA founded?
1935
This type of trigger includes thoughts, emotions, memories, or sensations associated with substance use
Internal trigger
Prefrontal Cortex
Play the Tape All the Way Through
Bradley Cooper directed and starred in this movie as a famous musician battling alcoholism
A Star is Born (2018)
This is the second stage of change during which someone recognizes that a problem exists and begins to consider how they could go about making the change
Contemplation
This type of trigger includes sights, smells, sounds, tastes associated with substance use
Sensory trigger
The tendency to act on a whim without forethought, reflection, or consideration of long term consequences means that I am engaging in what type of decision making?
Impulsive decision making
This problem solving technique prompts you to consider the costs and benefits of making a decision or not making a decision in an effort to help you gain clarity about what to do next
Cost Benefit Analysis
Denzel Washington earned an Oscar nomination for playing Whip Whitaker, an airline pilot who miraculously lands a crashing plane but faces an investigation into his substance abuse
Flight (2012)
This is a stress management and relaxation technique that involves systematically tensing and releasing specific muscle groups in order to bring attention between tension and relaxation
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
What are 2 ways to respond to triggers associated with substance use?
Avoidance, thought stopping, defusing from triggers, using coping skills, making changes to your routine/environment
Identify 2 factors that increase risk of relapse that you need to be aware of and plan for in your recovery
Stress, conflict in relationships, financial problems, burnout, access to substances, lack of supports, etc.
This coping skill is a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy technique that helps you interrupt and redirect distressing thoughts. Example: I may visualize a stop sign, I may verbally state: "stop!" or "enough!"
Thought stopping
Zendaya won two Primetime Emmys for her portrayal of Rue Bennett, a recovering teenage addict, navigating high school in this HBO series
Euphoria
This type of communication is defined as: indirect communication where individuals avoid expressing their thoughts, feelings, and needs. this may look like keeping things bottled up inside, deferring to others, or prioritizing the needs of others over their own
Passive communication
What were the 5 categories we discussed when "building a wall to prevent relapse?"
Knowing Your Weaknesses
Spirituality
Relational Stability
Emotional Wellbeing
Physical Health
This term is defined as the human tendency to search for, interpret, and favor information that confirms or supports pre-existing beliefs, while ignoring or discounting contradictory evidence, which can impact our decision making
Confirmation Bias
This is an emotional regulation skill from Dialectical Behavior Therapy that asks you to identify the emotion you are feeling and the urge associated with it and then take action directly opposing that urge
Opposite action
Leonardo DiCaprio starred as Jim Carroll in this 1995 biographical drama depicting a high school basketball star's descent into heroin addiction
The Basketball Diaries
This term describes the brain's ability to reorganize and adapt its structure and function over time, which is crucial to recovery
Neuroplasticity