CRM
This skill involves noticing physical contact with a surface, like feet on the floor or sitting in a chair.
What is Grounding?
This pillar involves taking responsibility for oneself and believing that you have the power and control to advocate for your own life.
What is Empowerment?
Instead of saying someone is a "schizophrenic" or "addict," you should use this type of "first" language to acknowledge the human being before the diagnosis.
What is Person-First Language?
This module teaches you how to be fully present in the moment without judgment.
What is Mindfulness?
This clinical acronym stands for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the leading authority on co-occurring recovery standards.
What is SAMHSA?
This skill uses immediate actions like drinking water or counting backwards to reset the nervous system during a crisis.
What is Help Now!?
Crestwood defines this pillar not just as religion, but as the way individuals find "meaning, hope, and comfort" in their lives.
What is Spirituality?
Instead of describing someone as "unreliable" or "resistant," you should use this approach to speak about their attributes.
What are Strengths (or Strength-based language)?
This module focuses on asking for what you need and saying "no" while maintaining your self-respect and relationships.
What is Interpersonal Effectiveness?
This evidence-based counseling style involves "rolling with resistance" and helping a person find their own internal reasons for change.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
This skill involves noticing a distressing sensation and then consciously moving attention to a more neutral or pleasant one.
What is Shift and Stay?
When a resident co-presents at a staff meeting or volunteers at a local shelter, they are actively engaging in this recovery pillar.
What are Meaningful Roles?
These subtle internal changes in your feelings or behaviors let you know that you are starting to feel worse and need to take action.
What are Early Warning Signs?
This skill involves acting in a way that is the exact opposite of what a negative emotion is telling you to do.
What is Opposite Action?
This specific type of "peer" is someone with lived experience in both mental health and substance use who provides support to others.
What is a Dual Recovery Peer Specialist?
If you feel "numb," "frozen," or "disconnected," you might be stuck in this zone.
What is the Low Zone?
This specific Crestwood network helps people served find Meaningful Roles through pre-employment training and professional development.
What is the Dreamcatchers?
This phrase is the recovery-oriented way to describe a "behavioral outburst," focusing on the person’s attempt to communicate a need.
What is an Unmet Need?
This "Middle Way" state of mind is the overlap between your "Reasonable Mind" (logic) and your "Emotion Mind" (feelings).
What is Wise Mind?
In this stage, the person is "sitting on the fence," weighing the pros and cons of making a change.
What is Contemplation?
CRM focuses on this part of the human body to help stabilize it after stress or trauma.
What is the nervous system?
Beyond the four main pillars, Crestwood also embraces these core values: Family, Compassion, Commitment, Flexibility, Character and ________?
What is Enthusiasm?
These are the Five Key Recovery Concepts
What are Hope, Personal Responsibility, Education, Self-Advocacy, and Support?
This set of skills is used to survive a crisis without making the situation worse.
What is Distress Tolerance?
Because the brain can heal and create new pathways during recovery, we use this 14-letter term to describe the brain's ability to change.
What is Neuroplasticity?