Coping Mechanisms
These are strategies people often use in the face of stress and/or trauma to help manage painful or difficult emotions .
What are coping mechanisms?
What are the three items we cannot control
People Places Things
This environment is recommended for client's after treatment
sober living
excusing of oneself or one's actions.
self justification
you go to these peoples with questions about your medications and medical concerns
Nursing staff
This coping mechanism suggests that one puts intrusive and repetitive thoughts into tangible and visible means
What is journaling?
What is the 11th step?
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
this continued service, available through the VA and community care, is recommended for all clients
therapy/mental health care
excessive, self-absorbed unhappiness over one's own troubles
self pity
these people assist with your day to day activities
client advisors
This is a mindfulness exercise that suggests one sit and focus on their thinking in a guided form
What is meditation
What are three of the bedevilments?
1.trouble with personal relationships
2. couldn't control out emotional natures
3. prey to misery and depression
4. couldn't make a living
5. feeling of uselessness
6. we were unhappy
7. couldnt be of use
These are community based recovery recourses where one can go to fellowship
AA/NA/CA/HA/CMA
the action of delaying or postponing something.
procrastination
this is meant to foster a sense of unity among the house and reintegrate oneself back into the community
group outings
What are coping mechanisms to avoid isolation?
going to meetings, fellowship
How does Ch.5 describe Alcohol?
cunning, baffling, powerful
This person can assist you with housing, scheduling medical appointments, vocational rehabilitation
what is a VA social worker
a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance.
ego
ability to make 2 x 15 minute phone calls, phone access while at the gym and on the way to and from meetings
What is Phase 3
substance use, self harm, isolation are examples of this...
What are maladaptive coping mechanisms?
What page is a spiritual experience on?
567
This is a service available for anyone that has a family member or loved one struggling with substance use
What is Al-Anon
this is a bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly.
resentment
This is meant to implement a system to track and occupy various hours of one's life to prepare one for life after treatment
Program Schedule