Relapse Prevention
True or False: The best way to prevent relapse is to recognize warning signs early.
What is True?
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A group that discusses the analogy of addiction. The soil represents abuse of any kind that provides fertile ground for the roots to develop into addiction; the roots symbolize a person's emotions linked to their addiction; the branches are the behaviors, events, experiences, people, and substances used in a person's addiction; and the leaves are the consequences or results of these qualities and behaviors.
What is the Tree of Addiction?
Working with a horse to build trust teaches skills necessary for day-to-day interaction with others. These skills include:
Balancing internal feelings, Improving confidence and assertiveness, Developing understanding of boundaries, Becoming more resilient and focused, Learning critical non-verbal communication skills, Feeling connected and needed, Banishing negative emotions, Fostering positive emotional growth, and Relaxing and being present in the moment.
What is Equine Therapy?
Treat your head like a bad neighborhood, don't go there alone. Take someone with you.
Who is Mrs. Nadia?
A type of coping mechanisms that releases endorphins during physical activity to relieve anxiety, stresses, and feelings of depression. It also helps rid the chemicals and toxins that were put into your body from drug abuse.
What is EXERCISE?
These are the three stages of relapse?
What are emotional, mental, and physical?
Group discusses tobacco use and healthy living, nicotine addiction, the truth about tobacco and smoking what works in trying to quit, smoking and sobriety, effects on those around us, and what will work for you.
What is Tobacco/Smoking Cessation?
Allows clients to be able to express him/herself through a non-verbal, imaginative, and creative exercise.
What is art therapy?
The greatest gift you can give your child is to complete treatment.
Who is Angela?
A coping mechanism that helps identify your feelings, fears, and thoughts by writing them down instead of internalizing them.
What is Journaling?
What are some common high-risk situations that lead to relapse?
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired (HALT)?
A group that discusses the process of the withdrawal to the physical imbalance caused by the sudden removal of a substance the body/brain has habituated to being present. Then explains the 6 months until 2 year process of fluctuations of the brain chemistry as they are seeking a new equilibrium.
What is the Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome group?
A group therapy that involves a gathering of peers who are also in recovery and a facilitator to help guide the sessions.
What is a process group?
**Daily Double**
If you can't manage your own life someone else will.
Who is Bruce?
A type of coping mechanism that helps you work through difficult thoughts and emotions, focus on the present moment, and observe your internal feelings and accept them without judgment or negativity.
What is Mindfulness and Meditation?
The three primary types of external triggers?
What are people, places, and things?
This group discusses communicable diseases, transmission and exposure, symptoms, and treatments.
What is the Bloodborne Pathogens group?
A type of group designed to educate clients about substance abuse, and related behaviors and consequences. This group provides information designed to have a direct application to clients' lives—to instill self-awareness, suggest options for growth and change, identify community resources that can assist clients in recovery, develop an understanding of the process of recovery, and prompt people using substances to take action on their own behalf, such as entering a treatment program.
What is a LECTURE group?
Forgive yourself for the past, life moving forward is a brand new canvas.
Who is Michael?
A type of coping mechanism that keeps your schedule filled with healthy and positive activities that will uplift your spirit and keep your emotional well-being intact. This can include developing new skills, learning a new language, and traveling to new places. Some examples are dancing, reading, writing, hiking, or playing sports.
What is Trying a New Hobby?
A strategy that enables you to restore emotional balance and feel better about yourself without engaging in a risky or unhealthy behavior.
What is a safe coping skill?
This group mentions a pattern of painful dependence on compulsive behavior and on approval from others in an attempt to find safety, self-worth, and identity. This group also discusses self-esteem and setting boundaries.
What is the Dysfunctional Relationships and Codependency group?
Encourages members' efforts to develop and strengthen the ability to manage their thinking and emotions and to develop better interpersonal skills as they recover from substance abuse. Support group members also help each other with pragmatic concerns, such as maintaining abstinence and managing day-to-day living. These groups are also used to improve members' general self-esteem and self-confidence. The group helps clients avoid isolation and finding something positive to say about each participant's contribution.
What is a SUPPORT group?
"You have two choices: change yourself or change your clean date."
Who is Cecelia?
A strong network of peers that can help you stay on track and will support your recovery journey.
What is Building a Sober Support Network?
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