TC Core Skills
WORTH and HOW
Concepts/Components
TC Expectations
Miscellaneous
100

You do this when you are recognizing in any situation or possible situations things that could stimulate you to use drugs, act violently, commit crime, or do some other kinds of destructive actions.

What is danger-spotting?

100

The O in HOW and WORTH.

What is open-minded(ness)?

100

Disconnecting from networks of drug using and relating to new drug-free peers.

What is community separateness?

100

True ___-______ and independence occur when individuals adopt positive changes internally regardless of outside influences. Independence increases as new behaviors are practiced and are used to help self and then others.

What is self-sufficiency?

100

Public speaking and sharing experiences publicly for therapeutic purposes for the individual and for others for the good of the individual and community to support recovery and facilitate prosocial change. Issues relevant to Cardinal, Major and House rules of the community must be publicly shared.

What is open communication?

200

Making your first interactions with others honest and positive, so that you can feel comfy with more people and be able to build more and better relationships.

What is handshaking?

200

The H in WORTH.

What is humility?

200

Many areas providing cohesiveness and sense of community like dining room, day room, group room, TV room.

Displays and signs of TC promote messages of recovery and right living and act as constant reminders.


What is community environment?

200

As community members move through the TC phases, the Community expects an increase in _________ and accountability. As members assume _________ for their own behavior and choices, they will extend ________ beyond self to their immediate peers, and finally to the entire community. (Hint: It's the same word in all blank fields.)

What is responsibility?

200

Mutual relationship to serve the needs of the individual and community via capacity for self-analysis and self-examination of behavior and attitudes that promote prosocial change.

What is community and individual balance?

300

Being able to relate to another person with our inner self. To have basic human respect for whomever you are dealing with. Responding to a person with dignity and mutual respect.

What is humanizing?

300

WORTH: Willingness: ______  ________.

What is follow suggestions?

300

Reflection of ABHS that work directly or indirectly with community and act as authority figures

What is staff as community members?

300

Name 2 of the TC expectations that start with S.

What are self-examination and self-sufficiency?

300

This community member role is able to remember the station everybody is heading towards no matter how confusing the landscape. The person who keeps others focused, asking questions to get on track and remind us of where we are headed and why.

What is conductor?

400

You do this to think through what is likely to happen as a result of what you might do; looking at all possible consequences.

What is forecasting?

400

WORTH: _______: honesty, talk about anything.

What is truthfulness?

400

Consists of aftercare services like outpatient, recovery house, vocational, educational, MH, family support services that are consistent with TC views of recovery, right living, self-help and supportive of a positive peer network.

What is Continuation of Recovery After TC Program Completion?

400

As members move through TC, community expectations increase as demonstrated behaviors improve. Focus and personal efforts are expected to move toward a higher and consistent level of ______.

What is performance?

400

Name an activity that promotes change.

What is Physical, Emotional/Psychological, Cognitive (thinking process), Social Consequences, Behavior Management/Behavior Shaping, Intellectual/Ethical, Spiritual, Vocational/Survival Skills? (Point given if you can list one).

500

An _________ is a positive truth about ourselves that we tell ourselves because we want to remember it. They are important messages chosen by the inner self to help re-shape our habit selves and make us more positive.

What is affirmation?

500
To put away false pride.

What is humility?

500

Learn to ID feelings, express them appropriately and manage them constructively. This continues through development of healthy support system and is essential to continuing the change process.

Emotional Growth Training

500

Name all TC expectations.

What are Performance, Responsibility, Self-examination, Self-sufficiency?

500

Goal is to equip individuals with language that will allow them to discuss and handle their feelings instead of acting them out via focusing on educational abilities important to social survival as well as exploration and examination of values and great ideas.

What is intellectual/ethical?