Relapse Prevention
What are three people/places that you can go to get support in your recovery?
Meetings, Sponsor, Healthy Family, Healthy Friends, Group members, Church
What are three coping skills you are actually using?
variety of answers - group leader discretion
In simple terms, a__________ is anything that brings back thoughts, feelings, or memories of an addiction.
Trigger
This term refers to automatic thoughts that feel true but are often inaccurate.
What are cognitive distortions?
Progress not ______
Perfection
What are three possible signs that a relapse may be approaching?
Interacting with old using friends, Engaging in cross addiction, Going to old using places, Irritation, Poor emotional control, Isolation, Stop going to meetings/talking to sponsor
What are two ways that we can see improvement in self esteem?
Learning a new skill, Self Care, Positive Affirmations, Engage with Healthy People
What are examples of internal triggers?
Thoughts, feelings, emotions.
This distortion assumes the worst possible outcome and treats it as fact.
What is catastrophizing?
What is the most regularly used addictive substance in the United States?
Alcohol
This evidence-based approach to maintaining recovery from addiction involves identifying triggers and warning signs and then developing specific coping strategies to avoid a return to negative behavior.
Relapse Prevention
This is the practice of regularly taking time to focus on your own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being
Self-care
What is the most common trigger that leads to relapse?
Stress
This distortion involves attaching a negative name to yourself based on past behavior.
What is labeling?
What does HALT stand for?
Hungry, angry, lonely, tired
This approach to addiction recovery focuses on minimizing the negative consequences associated with active substance use by providing tools, strategies, resources, and supports to reduce the risks and dangers associated with that use.
Harm Reduction
What are two coping skills?
Talk to someone, Distract, counseling skills, Go to a meeting, self-care
What are examples of external triggers?
People, Places, Things
This distortion involves seeing things as all good or all bad, with no middle ground.
What is all-or-nothing thinking?
It ____ if you ____ it.
It works if you work it.
What are examples of prescribed and federally regulated medications can help an opiate addicted individual start recovering from their addiction and structuring his or her life again.
Methadone, Suboxone, and Naltrexone.
Writing down thoughts to challenge them is a CBT coping skill called this. Ex-Reframing, changing negative thoughts
What is cognitive restructuring?
Give an example of people, places and things that can be triggers. 1 each
People: dealer, friends who use, family
Places: wherever you used, your room etc
Things: paraphernalia, etc
This distortion ignores progress and focuses only on failures. Good things don't count. Compliments get thrown out.
What is discounting the positive?
What is something you struggle with the most in recovery and how are you overcoming that struggle?
Group Leader Discretion