Addiction
A pattern of using a mood-altering substance that causes problems
What is Substance Abuse or Addiction
The "pleasure" or "happy" hormone
What is dopamine.
Feeling pain or loss upon hearing others speak positively about us
What is difficulty hearing positives
8-year-old Megan goes to school and immediately starts her homework on the bus ride home. As soon as she gets home, she organizes a chore chart, for her and younger siblings to complete. As soon as they are done, she will go the garage to practice playing her instrument. She is a straight A student.
What is the family hero, super child or caretaker of family.
A grounding skill in which we use the five senses to calm our mind or emotions and provide distraction
Factors that influence addiction. Ex: Family dynamics, friend groups, media, culture/religion, learned environment
What is external factors
The four stress responses our body uses to promote our survival
Respecting healthy emotional and physical boundaries, hearing everyone's personal opinion, having age appropriate rules/expectations, and family members feeling safe secure and expecting and forgiving mistakes are
What is healthy charactieristics
Liam drinks beer every two days, after work at happy hour with his co-workers. He spends most of the time at the bar and will usually bring back fast food for the family to eat for dinner at 1000 PM.
What is the Substance User or addict.
A goal you can achieve in 6 months or less
What is a short-term goal
A model of stages that one experiences when modifying or changing a behavior
What is the stages of change
This behavior can improve your sleep, ease cravings, replace your triggers, and support overall physical health
What is exercise
One who is afraid to enter a relationship, knowing that we have been emotionally and physically hurt in previous relationship. One who will push others away.
What is fear of intimacy
Ariel cooks and cleans the home daily, ensures the children are feed, completed their chores and homework. She will at times call-in for her husband, when he is feeling "sick" after a night of drinking.
What is the enabler or protector of family.
The first step to sitting with your feelings
What is acknowledge the feeling or name and identify the feeling
An involuntary takeover of the brain that compromises decision-making, decreases freedom of choice, and makes quitting very difficult
What are drugs "hijacking" the brain
What is the pre-frontal cortex
Lisa likes to antagonize her siblings, as she finds comfort in this. She finds it difficult to adjust to a calm environment.
What is a Chaos Junkie
Noah makes jokes to lighten the mood when his parents and siblings are fighting about what to do for the weekend, to avoid conflict.
What is the mascot or clown.
Behaviors that provide short-term relief. Ex: substance abuse, isolation, excessive screen time, emotional eating
What is unhealthy or maladaptive coping skills
An experiment in the 1890s which used dogs to demonstrate classical conditioning, and demonstrated how a trigger is formed using the conditioned response of a dog salivating when a bell is rung
What is Pavlov's Dog Experiment
What is magnesium
An ailment in which we begin to feel that if people really knew us, they wouldn't like us
What is imposter syndrome
12-year-old Micah, spends most of his time in his room with door closed. He will play and read in his room. His parents feel he is responsible that he does not need much attention. Micah feels invisible to his family.
What is the lost child/forgotten child.
When you make a small request first to get the individual into "yes" mode, before making a larger request
What is "foot-in-the-door" technique