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Relapse Prevention
Recovery
Spirituality & Recovery
Support Groups & Recovery
Types of Drugs & Their Effects
100
Laura's Question: For many addicted clients, this is at the emotional core of their being, and it is often connected to relapse.
What is shame?
100
Ronnie's Question: Clients who do not actively address recovery issues have the potential to move closer to this behavior.
What is a relapse?
100
Terese's Question: Alcoholics Anonymous asserts that this condition, sometimes referred to as “soul sickness” emanates from an existential emptiness and disconnection.
What is “addiction”
100
Terese's Question: According to Yalom (2005) the installation of hope, universality, socialization, altruism, interpersonal learning, cohesiveness, and catharsis are __________ factors in groups.
What is “therapeutic”
100
Elaine's Question: Amphetamines, caffeine, and nicotine are examples of these types of drugs.
What are stimulants?
200
Esther's Question: Previous using establishments, people, events, or times of year.
What are high-risk situations for relapse?
200
Marie's Question: The experience of changes in emotional, spiritual, and physical attitudes while refraining from taking alcohol and drugs.
What is recovery?
200
Elaine's Question: In many support groups, the members each arrive at a unique sense of
What is a higher power?
200
Sheindel's Question: This is particular group meeting, that clients attend on a regular basis and is part of their weekly routine.
What is the definition of home group?
200
Mary's Question: A category of drugs consisting of such drugs as Demerol, codeine, morphine, Percocet, and heroin.
What are narcotics or opiates?
300
Stacy's Question: This offers clients an increased opportunity to identify their core beliefs, emotions, and behaviors in an effort to self-intervene and choose alternative, healthier behaviors.
What is relapse prevention?
300
Stacy's Question: An individual in recovery who has been clean and sober for an extended period of time, continually works a 12-step program and helps others work the 12-steps.
What is a sponsor?
300
Mary's Question: This person believed that the “cure” for alcoholism was found in the Latin words, spiritus contra spiritum (i.e., treating the spirits with spirit), and significantly contributed to the idea that recovery from alcoholism was most hopefully treated with spiritual means.
Who was Dr. Carl Jung?
300
Cecil's Question: These steps are not mandated but are a suggested path to sobriety and spiritual awakening.
What are the Twelve Steps of AA?
300
Nikki's Question: These drugs have a high potential for abuse with both physical and psychological dependence. Such drugs include: codeine, opium, methadone, and cocaine.
What are “Schedule II Drugs”?
400
Jackie's Question: The phase of Gorski's warning signs for relapse when a person begins “to minimize, rationalize, justify and distort” his or her feelings.
What is phase one of Gorski's warning signs?
400
Angela's Question: In addition to the 12-steps of AA, there are other areas clients can become involved to deepen their connection in recovery. A few are: identify a home group, sponsorship, and a chip system.
What are some constructs counselors need to be familiar with when working with clients who attend AA or NA meetings?
400
Esther's Question: Evidence exists that those who have participated in these programs have made the most significant movement in their recovery from addiction.
What are spiritually-based programs?
400
Jackie's Question: A point at which a person fully accepts the reality of his or her substance abuse. This differs from compliance, which is accepting the reality on a conscious level but not on an unconscious (or deeper) level.
What is surrender?
400
Marie's Question: This class of drug has a high abuse and/or addiction potential and no medical use.
What is Schedule I drugs?
500
Cecil's Question: Behaviors that take much of the life of the addict or alcoholic are: food, codependent relationships, work, sexual behavior, money, gambling, shopping, nicotine, coffee, and sugar.
What are the types of compulsive and addictive behaviors?
500
Laura's Question: This aspect of recovery is necessary for recovering addicts who find themselves with a great deal of free time now that they have stopped using drugs.
What is daily structure?
500
Nikki's Question: An experience of existential emptiness and search for meaning. Loneliness and deperation felt by those longing to connect to a greater purpose; those who use drugs do so in order to medicate their "pained soul."
What is spiritual emptiness?
500
Angela's Question - In 1935, AA was co-founded by two men, one was a surgeon from Ohio, the other a stockbroker from New York.
Who are Smith & Wilson?
500
Sheindel's Question: There are no reported symptioms of withdrawal once a client stops using this drug.
What is PCP?