Recovery
12-Step Meetings such as AA, NA, Al-Anon; SMART Recovery, Celebrate Recovery, and Regeneration are examples of ________ groups.
What is support?
Give 3 examples of external triggers.
What are people, places, and things. Can be pretty much anything.
A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential
What is recovery?
One way to cope is to _______ yourself from the stressor.
What is remove/distance?
True or False: It is possible to have withdrawal symptoms for up to two years after you stop using drugs or alcohol.
What is True? Bonus points if you can tell us the name of the phenomenon
IOP stands for _____________ outpatient program.
What is Intensive?
Name two areas of your life that are important for healthy life-balance. Ex. Physical
What is physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, financial, educational, and vocational?
Two common types (categories) of triggers are External and __________.
What are internal triggers?
When someone who is recovering from an addiction returns to using drugs or alcohol, or gambling, after a period of sobriety.
What is relapse?
Being thankful for things that you do have. Often counselors will ask you to make a list of these daily to help improve your overall health.
What are things we are grateful for?
True or False: Testing yourself by going to the liquor store, by hanging out with people using drugs or alcohol, etc. is a good way to make you stronger.
What is False?
Holding onto anger and refusing to forgive someone for a wrongdoing is called _____________.
What is Resentment?
___________ Skills. These are the methods used to tolerate and deal with difficult or stressful situations.
What are coping skills?
You should "H.A.L.T." when you feel triggered, and check for these feelings.
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired?
An individual’s ability to cope with adversity and adapt to challenges or change. This develops over time and gives an individual the capacity not only to cope with life’s challenges but also to be better prepared for the next stressful situation.
What is resiliency?
Physical activity that can improve sleep, increase energy, reduce stress and anxiety, improve well-being, and increase mental alertness.
What is exercise?
True or False: Having a using dream about using drugs or alcohol means that you are destined to relapse.
What is False?
A type of meditation led by an expert to take you through the basic steps of your meditation practice.
What is guided meditation?
The stage of change in which people work to prevent relapse and continue the progress made during the action stage. Stage one is precontemplation, stage two is contemplation, stage three is preparation, stage four is action, stage five is ______________.
What is the Maintenance stage?
This brain chemical is responsible for motivation, craving, feeling pleasure...
What is dopamine?
What is Mindfulness?
Any healthy, deliberate activity, intended to nourish your mental, emotional, and/or physical wellbeing.
What is self care?
True or False: It is best to keep using thoughts, dreams, cravings, to yourself because talking about them will make them worse.
What is False?
What DBT stands for.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy?
"What fires together wires together" is an example of _______________. One of the terms we hope that you will become very familiar with in outpatient. Your brain is malleable and changes with what you repeatedly do or think.
What is Neuroplasticity?
A sight or image that can prompt someone to use drugs or alcohol again by activating a subconscious response in the brain.
What is a visual trigger?
The area of the brain located beneath the basal ganglia, regulate the brain's reactions to stress-including behavioral responses like “fight or flight” and negative emotions like unease, anxiety, and irritability.
What is the amygdala?
A practice using techniques – such as mindfulness – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm, and stable state.
What is meditation?
True or False: The odds of maintaining sobriety are the same for people who willingly go to rehab as they are for people who are court-ordered to go to rehab.
What is True?
Some people use emotions to make their decisions while others use logic or reason. DBT _____-____, uses a little of each.
What is Wise-Mind?