Coping Skills
This breathing exercise includes breathing in for 4 seconds, holding for 7 seconds, and 8 seconds of breathing out.
What is the 4-7-8 breathing technique?
This is when a person's desires for drug use come up, but they are not actively engaging in drug use.
What is a craving?
When you hold yourself responsible for your own actions you would call this?
What is accountability?
When a person enters formal treatment for a substance use struggles they are often given a diagnosis under this category.
What is a substance use disorder?
This is a tool used by clinicians to help make clear goals with clients.
What are SMART goals?
What are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound (SMART) goals?
This is something that takes many different forms, but ultimately are meant to help people feel better and handle more stressful situations in life.
What is a coping skill?
These typically take place either virtually or in a private space. The point is that these are peer led groups to help people recover.
What is a self-help meeting?
What is AA/NA/SMART recovery?
When a someone in a self-help group is struggling with their cravings they will reach out to this person.
What is a sponsor?
A type of thinking that can lead to an increase in negative feelings or actions.
(hint: Think CBT)
What is a cognitive distortion?
This large book contains all the different diagnosis criteria and disorders that are currently recognized by mental health professionals.
What is the DSM-5 TR?
This specific technique is meant to breakdown a person's thinking process and how to adjust it to become more productive. (Hint: Albert Elias created it)
What is the ABC model?
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What is the ABCDE model?
This is a term that helps people identify the 5 main causes of relapse and is often used in relapse prevention.
What is HALTS?
This process is often attributed to AA, but has been adopted by many to help guide their journey to recovery.
What is step work?
What are the 12 steps?
This can happen all of the sudden, is often very intense, sometimes come with a fear of death, an elevated heart rate, and may or may not have a trigger.
(Hint: sometimes medical professionals and people mistake this for a heart attack)
What is a panic attack?
A substance use disorder is often given an additional identifier of one of these words to describe the degree of disorder.
This skill from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy attempts to help a person see their thoughts as just thoughts that come and go.
What is cognitive diffusion?
When a person gives into a craving for drug use, but is able to stop themselves after either one dose or one binge episode.
What is a lapse?
When people make mistakes in recovery, it's important to remind clients to practice this.
What is kindness to self?
What is compassion?
What is grace?
These two disorders are the most common for people to develop after entering recovery due to physical effects of drug use or situations caused by substance use.
What is depression and anxiety?
When client's come in with a substance use disorder clinicians gage this in order to be able to determine clinical significance.
What is self-perception?
This skill involves being able to shift your perspective and see things from a new point of view.
What is reframing?
This stage is constantly happening. I can be identified by having extensive sober time, along with changes in emotional, physical, and spiritual well being.
What is recovery?
This term is meant to describe important things to keep in mind when helping someone dealing with addiction. Often can be summarized in 3 key words.
What are the 3 C's of addiction?
What is cause, cure, and control?
This is the act of engaging in things you enjoy and bring your peace. This can show in a lot of different ways and life can sometimes make it harder to accomplish.
What is self-care?
This medication has been shown to be extremely effective at treating depression, seasonal depression, and nicotine withdrawl.
What is Wellbutrin?
What is Bupropion (hydrochloride)?