STEPS
What are we talking about when we use STEPS?
Decision Making
Substance use as a coping skills.
HURTFUL. Using substances may feel helpful in the moment but has long-term consequences and will NEVER solve your problems.
What three things makes a good goal?
Desirable, Specific, and Achievable
What does emotional regulation mean?
Emotional self-regulation or emotion regulation is the ability to respond to the ongoing demands of the range of emotions in a manner that is socially tolerable and flexible to allow everyone to be safe and comfortable.
What does personal control mean? And how can it help with substance use?
an individual's belief about the degree that he or she can bring about good events and avoid bad events. The act of making decisions for yourself.
Your personal control skills have a major impact on your ability to make helpful decision rather than hurtful decisions. As we have briefly talked about in the past, substance use control is a lot about deciding between a hurtful decision and a helpful one. Short term “gain” versus long term gain
Why is STEPS important? How is it helpful?
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STEPS helps us make purposeful decisions instead of making impulsive decisions.
Helpful
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Breaking the goal down to be more manageable and making a to-do list.
What is a tools that you can use to manage your mood?
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coping skills, STEPS, talking to someone
What is a personal control strategy? Name one.
They are positive and healthy strategies that help you maintain personal control and help make positive changes in your life.
Understanding the different between helpful and unhelpful people, making goals, making a to-do list, exercising, self-care, etc...
What does STEPS stand for?
Stop, Think, Evaluate, Preform/Act, Self-praise
Luke was feeling really frustrated with his Econ. teacher about an assignment. Luke feels like the teacher is being unfair because she will not extend the due date even though Luke needs more time. Luke gets the urge to scream and cuss at the teacher. He thinks about whether that would solve his problem or make it worse. Work through this as luke and come up with a helpful solution.
Luke should take a step back and take a deep breath. Cussing and yelling at the teacher will not help his assignment get done or his grade. He will ultimately end up in more trouble. As he is thinking Luke knows he should have started the assignment earlier. After taking a minute for himself, he decides to turn in the assignment unfinished to get partial credit.
What are two barriers to reaching your goals?
Name three harmful ways to show your anger.
What is a support network and why are they important? Specifically, when looking at substance use and personal control.
A support are positive people in your life that you can lean on for extra support. They can do a lot for you and your journey. They help keep you accountable, talk to you when you need it, and help you make helpful decisions.
What are we evaluating when we get to evaluate on STEPS? Why do we do that?
We evaluate out options so we can pick the best and most helpful options.
While the teacher is teaching their lesson. Rich asked Gage to go to the bathroom and vape with him. Gage is so bored in the lesson that he is okay with anything that gets him out of class. Rich goes in the bathroom first and then Gage asked to go a couple minutes later. They are vaping in the bathroom with the fire alarm goes off. They exit the building and two SROs stop them and ask both Rich and Gage to go to the office with them because they could smell something outside of the bathroom. Helpful or Hurtful? What is the cause and effect? Was it worth it?
Hurtful. Because they decided to vape in the bathroom at school, the fire alarm was triggered. The Vapes had a smell so the SROs could smell in from outside the bathrooms. It was not worth it because now the boys are going to get in trouble for making a hurtful choice.
What is academic success?
Setting and meeting your academic goals or personal goals that impact your academics. That could look differently depending on the circumstance. That could look like getting a C or it could look like showing up to class 2 days in a row. Everyone is different and that is okay.
Susie woke up late for school and was getting yelled at by her parents. When she got to school there are three students she usually walks to class with picking on her for being "grumpy." Susie feels her heart racing and he face getting hot. She wants to cuss them out and maybe punch a locker to feel better.
Susie is feeling angry, aggressive, irate
Susie need to Stop and Think about her options for what to do before she gets in trouble. Susie should try a coping skill and get space from these friends.
Why is important that we talk about drug use control? What have you learned about?
Name three types of decision making.
Intuitive, planned, impulsive, fantastical,
Lucy and Becky were planning on skipping class to go to a new coffee shop and hang out. Becky is skipping V-Lab so she thinks it will be okay because no one teaches. Lucy is skipping Chemistry which is already has a D- in. Lucy knows it is the end of the year and that the final test is coming up, but she skips anyways. Who is in the wrong? What could the consequences be?
Both girls are in the wrong for not respecting the rule of the school.
Lucy might fail her class now because she missed something important.
Becky won't get a class finished before APEX resets.
They get caught and get suspended.
Etc...
Break down this goal for me: I would like to quit vaping by the end of the summer.
Mini-Goals:
To-Do list:
What are the five parts of uncontrolled anger?
Trigger, thoughts, feelings, behavior, effect
What is a "slip-up" and how do you know it is about to happen? What are the symptoms?
A slip-up is when you do something or something happens that could be considered a set-back from reaching your goals. For example, if your goal is to quit vaping, but you vaped.
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