The Model
This style/approach for counseling those with substance use issues leads to the 4 Fs: Fighters, Fleers, Followers, and Fakers.
What is the "mad rush for abstinence"?
This is a common cough suppressant drug that can be misused by people.
What is dextromethorphan (DX)?
This is where the current SUD LOC form is located.
What is the intranet/iCommunity?
This is the minimum number of criteria from the DSM to diagnose a SUD.
What is 2?
This Challenge focuses on helping a client identify the benefits of their substance use.
What is Challenge 2- We looked at what we liked about alcohol and other drugs and why we were using them.
Seven Challenges is considered this type of counseling model.
What is a Health Decision Making Model?
Fentanyl is considered this class of drugs.
What is an opioid?
This is when a Level of Care form is completed.
What is any time a client is diagnosed with a substance use disorder?
This is how many months (minimum) one has to be without criteria for a diagnosis to be in early remission from a SUD.
What is 3?
This challenge will often involve discussion about past issues like trauma, family relationships/behaviors, and one's own choices in life.
What is challenge 4?
This is what Seven Challenges calls it when a youth having awareness of their life (noticing what is going well, what is not going well), and then taking action to address these issues.
What is a working session?
This is the most widely used drug/substance.
What is alcohol?
This is the screening tool clients at South Community complete at intake to explore possible substance use issues.
What is the Modified Simple Screening Instrument- Substance Abuse (MSSI-SA)?
This is a need for markedly increased amounts of a substance to achieve intoxication or the desired effect, and markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount of the a substance.
What is tolerance?
This is what Seven Challenges calls it when the counselor tries to seamlessly reference the challenges in a session.
What is "making the challenges part of the conversation"?
While working sessions involve talking about the challenges in no particular order, these have to be completed linearly/in order.
What are journals?
Xanax and Valium would be examples of this class of drugs, are considered controlled substances, and are considered central nervous system depressants used to treat anxiety, insomnia, among some other conditions.
What are benzodiazepines?
This is the level of care that most Seven Challenges clients would be considered, with the exception of clients at NRTC, which is considered residential.
What is outpatient counseling?
This would be the diagnosis given to someone misusing Percs (parents prescription) over a period of a couple years, has taken more than intended, has cravings, school has been impacted (sleeps more in class, grades have declined), and they need more to get the desired effect.
What is Sedative, Hypnotic, or Anxiolytic Use Disorder, moderate?
These are the parts of the check in.
This involves asking a client to rate their current functioning, share any recent use patterns, and identify what they want to work on.
What is the check-in process?
This "drug" is an herb in the mint family that people chew or smoke it's leaves, is considered a hallucinogen, and is sometimes called "Sage of the Seers," "Diviner's Sage,", "Sally-D," or "Magic Mint." It is currently not an illegal drug according to the DEA, but some states are passing laws to regulate its use.
What is Salvia?
This is the organization whose criteria we use to determine what level of care to place a client in for substance use treatment.
What is ASAM-American Society of Addition Medicine?
This would be the diagnosis give to someone who is using methamphetamine a few times a week, there has been unsuccessful efforts to cut back, has cravings to continue use, spends a great amount of time recovering from using, is missing a lot of work, continues use despite problems with family due to use, and has been in a car accident while high.
What is Stimulant Use Disorder, severe?
This Challenge is the foundation to the whole model, and we never stop working on this challenge despite how far we are into the model.
What is Challenge 1- being open and honest?