Aftercare
What is the average length of stay for a PHP completion?
What is 28- 30 days
What are the three stages of relapse?
What is an emotional relapse, mental relapse, and physical relapse.
What is the DBT skill used for de-escalation?
What is the STOP SKILL
What is the difference between triggers and cravings?
Triggers are associated with thoughts or memories and cravings are more physical, mental and emotional.
Who wrote the big book?
Who is Bill and Bob
What do all addicts have in common?
What is believing willpower is enough to beat addiction.
What are the three Ps of Recovery? Name two out of three.
Patience
Perseverance
Persistence
A negative feeling caused by a particular action, process or situation (person, place, or things)
What is a trigger
What are two categories of triggers?
Internal and external.
Which step requires you to take a personal inventory upon yourself?
What is step four
For the best chance of staying sober, what is the MINIMUM length of time a person should stay in treatment?
What is 90 days.
What are the top three factors that contribute to relapse?
Dangerous people, places and things.
Name a coping skill that releases endorphins.
What is exercise.
The phenomena that occurs within the mind that can effect thoughts, emotions and behaviors.
What is a craving or urge.
Which step requires you to make amends with others?
What is step nine
This act allows a person to do whatever they want and need in the moment for themselves.
What is self-care.
What are the three possible barriers to continuous long-term sobriety?
Stress, Peer pressure, lack of Social support, low self efficacy, interpersonal problems, lack of spirituality, finances.
This category of coping skills includes watching movies, reading books or engaging in something for a time being.
What is a distraction.
How can you identify your emotional triggers?
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
What is the serenity prayer.
What is the percentage of people that remain sober for 1 year after completing a 90 day program?
What is 25-30%.
Where does relapse begin?
What is in the mind.
This phenomena lights up every area of your brain all at once.
What is music.
This act helps a person handle urges while going through potential consequences. (What is the "P" in STOP skill)
What is playing the tape through, or proceeding mindfully.
Three indispensable spiritual principles in the 12 step fellowship are? (hint, think of H.O.W.)
What are honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness.