General SMART Recovery
True or False: SMART Recovery is a moderation program.
False. SMART Recovery is an abstinence-based approach, and SMART discussions focus on being totally abstinent. However, SMART recovery is available to people wherever they're currently at in their recovery.
A cost-benefit analysis is helpful for enhancing motivation. True or false: a cost-benefit analysis doesn't acknowledge any of the benefits from continuing with addictive behavior.
False. A cost-benefit analysis honestly evaluates the costs and benefits of addictive behavior. If there were no benefits of engaging in our addictive behavior, we wouldn't do it. It's important to be realistic about the costs as well as the benefits. More often than not, the costs outweigh the benefits anyway.
What is a trigger?
Anything that leads to cravings (I want to use) or urges (I need to use).
Situations, events, people, places, and things, don't cause us to behave in a certain way. Ultimately, what dictates our behavior?
Our beliefs, (rational or irrational) lead to our behavior, not external events or circumstances.
Finding and maintaining balance is a common struggle for those in early recovery.
True. In our addictions, we usually don't have much balance in our lives.
What is SMART recovery's position on addiction being a disease?
SMART Recovery can help regardless of if you believe addiction is a disease or not. SMART Recovery takes no position on this matter.
What is the best way to learn SMART recovery's tools?
To practice them yourself by using them in your daily life. The SMART Recovery handbook contains many helpful worksheets to fill out.
True or False: Irrational beliefs about urges lead to acting out or using.
True.
Unconditional Self-Acceptance is the idea that...
True or False: VACIs (Vital absorbing creative interests) refer to leisure hobbies and activities that bring joy and fulfillment.
True
What is the Contemplation Stage (second stage)
True or False: Vital Absorbing Creative Interests (VACI) tool is primarily used for point 1, building and maintaining motivation.
False. VACI is used primarily for point 4, living a balanced life.
The ABC tool addresses irrational beliefs about situations or feelings that lead to acting out and replaces these irrational beliefs with more effective, helpful, and rational ones. What does ABC stand for?
Activating event.
Belief about the event.
Consequences of irrational beliefs
Dispute the irrational belief
Effective thinking change
Rational beliefs are beliefs that are:
True, make sense, or are helpful
The lifestyle balance pie entails drawing a pie with slices and labeling each slice with a value or area of your life that is important to you. True or False: the pie's outer edge represents complete satisfaction in that area.
True
What is SMART Recovery's approach to spirituality in recovery?
Spirituality is not a part of the SMART program. Spirituality is a personal decision and those who choose to involve spirituality in their recovery are more than welcome in SMART meetings, but it doesn't have a place in SMART's program.
Motivation to change occurs when
The negatives of the behavior outweigh the positives. This is why the Hierarchy of Values (HOV) and Cost-Benefit Analysis tools are so helpful for building and maintaining motivation for change.
Identifying, understanding, and being aware of our triggers is a vital part of coping with and managing them. Which SMART tool is designed to increase our awareness of our triggers, such as what the triggers are, when they occur, and how intense they are?
Urge Log
The SMART Tool DIB stands for:
Disputing irrational beliefs
True or false: Setting goals is NOT an important part of achieving and living a balanced life.
SMART Recovery is based in CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) and REBT. What does REBT stand for?
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
The "three questions" are:
1. What do I want for my future?
2. What am I currently doing to achieve that?
3. How do I feel about what I'm currently doing?
The DISARM tool deals with refusing our inner voice that compels us to use. What does DISARM stand for?
Destructive Images and Self-talk Awareness and Refusal Method (DISARM)
Belief disputes are usually in what form? And what's and example of an irrational belief and disputing it?
Disputing statements are in the form of questions. Example:
Irrational Belief (IB): I always fail.
Disputing Question (D): Do I always fail?SMART goals are a specific formula for setting productive goals. What are the 5 points of goal-setting that the acronym SMART stands for? (Get 4/5 for full points)
Specific: Be specific about what is to be achieved.
Measurable: The goal should be measurable so progress and completion can be accurately assessed. Example: "Go to bed at 10:00 PM" versus "Get more sleep"
Attainable: Set goals you know you can achieve and are possible/realistic.
Relevant: The goal should be relevant to your life and values, and motivation to achieve the goal should come from within you.
Time-bound: Goal should have a deadline/time period.