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Addiction & Recovery
Program Philosophy
Clinical & Group Work
Family, Trauma & Mental Health
Life After Treatment
100
What is a recovery program?
According to the handbook, abstinence without this will eventually lead back to active use.
100
What is a spiritual experience?
Southern Maine Recovery says the ultimate goal of treatment is this kind of experience.
100
What is social connection or social bond?
Groups are designed to strengthen this among clients and support discussion of shared challenges.
100
What is a family disease?
The handbook describes addiction as this kind of disease because it affects loved ones as well as the person using.
100
What is direction?
Establishing purpose and this outside of a recovery program is a primary objective of Southern Maine Recovery.
200
What is obsession?
The handbook describes recurring, persistent thoughts about using that do not respond to reason as this.
200
What is a change in personality?
The handbook defines a spiritual experience as this kind of change, sufficient to recover from addiction.
200
What is peer support?
Groups provide a forum for accountability and this kind of support.
200
What is CODA?
Families are encouraged to attend support groups such as Al-Anon, Families Anonymous, and this group.
200
What are professional resources?
Clients may need help with medical, legal, educational, and this type of resource during and after treatment.
300
What is RID?
Restlessness, irritability, and discontent are shortened in the handbook to these three letters.
300
What are the 12 Steps?
Southern Maine Recovery combines clinical treatment with intensive immersion in this recovery approach.
300
What are treatment objectives?
The handbook says self-awareness by itself is not enough; clinicians create these to move a client toward change.
300
What is the world?
The handbook says trauma can create a belief that this is not a safe place for oneself or others.
300
What is a stable living environment?
Before leaving programming, all clients are expected to transition into this kind of living environment.
400
What is the Phenomenon of Craving?
The handbook calls the overwhelming compulsion to use more after the first drink or drug this phenomenon.
400
What is motivation?
After education about addiction, the program focuses on building resolve and this for the action required by recovery.
400
What are barriers to recovery?
When clients become disturbed, staff may use the behavior to better assess and treat these obstacles to recovery.
400
What are practical coping mechanisms?
For trauma-related symptoms, the clinical team identifies environmental triggers and develops these with the client.
400
What are spiritual practices?
The handbook says successful recovery is a lifelong process centered in total abstinence and the ongoing application of these practices.
500
What are body, mind, and spirit?
The handbook describes addiction as a treatable disease involving these three parts of a person.
500
What is personal conduct?
The program identifies anger, self-centered fear, and the emotional consequences of this as common barriers to recovery.
500
What are trust and rapport?
According to the handbook, direct communication is most likely to fail if these two things have not been established.
500
What is simultaneously?
The handbook says mental health and personality disorders should be treated in this way alongside substance use disorder.
500
What are actual life situations and challenges?
The handbook says treatment should prepare clients to apply the recovery method in these kinds of real-life situations.