CBT Triangle
This part of the CBT Triangle refers to the ideas, beliefs, and automatic thoughts running through our minds.
What are Thoughts?
This cognitive distortion occurs when someone sees situations in only two categories, with no middle ground.
What is all-or-nothing thinking?
Using terms like "drunk," "junkie," or "addict" can contribute to stigma. Saying Positive or negative when someone completes a UDS instead of clean or dirty is an example of what?
Changing your language
Identifying and using these can increase confidence and support long-term recovery goals.
What are strengths?
This healthy activity can reduce stress, improve mood, and support overall wellness in recovery.
What is exercise?
This process involves examining who you are, what matters to you, and who you want to become in recovery.
What is self-exploration?
Progress, --- ----------
Progress, Not perfection
According to the CBT Triangle, negative thoughts can influence these two other areas of functioning.
Answer: What are feelings and behaviors?
What are feelings and behaviors?
Believing that one lapse in recovery means total failure is an example of this cognitive distortion.
What is catastrophizing or all-or-nothing thinking?
Saying something when you hear myths or stereotypes about substance use disorders would be ...
Speaking up!
his personal quality helps you keep going even when recovery feels difficult.
Question: What is resilience?
What is resilience?
Attending recovery meetings, support groups, or sober events helps individuals build this important recovery resource.
What is a support network?
This refers to how a person sees themselves, including their values, roles, beliefs, and sense of purpose.
What is identity?
Easy ---- --
Easy does it
A person feels anxious before a social event and decides not to attend. Which side of the CBT Triangle does not attending represent?
What is behaviors?
This cognitive distortion involves assuming you know what other people are thinking about you without evidence.
What is mind reading?
It can be hard to see that you are worth recovery if you...
believe stigma about yourself.
A strength that involves reaching out to trusted people for encouragement and accountability.
What is asking for support or building a support network?
Volunteering, helping others, and participating in community service can increase a sense of purpose and connection.
What is giving back (or service work)?
During active addiction, many people begin to define themselves primarily by their substance use rather than by their strengths, relationships, or goals. This is called a substance use ________.
What is identity?
---- it simple
Keep it simple
The CBT Triangle teaches that changing any part of the triangle helps to?
What is change the other parts of the triangle?
This cognitive distortion occurs when a person focuses only on negatives while ignoring positives or successes.
What is mental filtering?
Because of the stigma that substance use disorders carry, ___ % of people avoid seeking help.
What is 10 percent?
This strength helps people pause, think through consequences, and make healthier decisions when facing triggers.
What is self-awareness?
Learning a new skill, taking a class, or pursuing a hobby can strengthen confidence and support this aspect of recovery.
What is personal growth?
This occurs when individuals believe negative labels such as "addict" or "failure" and begin to see themselves through that lens.
What is internalized stigma?
Feelings aren't -----
Feelings aren't facts
In recovery, the thought "One drink won't hurt" is an example of this part of the CBT Triangle.
What are thoughts?
A person in recovery has been sober for six months but thinks, "That doesn't count because I should have never started using." This cognitive distortion is known as what?
What is discounting the positive?
The fear of being mistreated or judged by your clinician can lead to...
Leaving important information about drug interactions, screenings for associated conditions, and general health information related to use can be missed.
Research shows that people who recognize and build upon their strengths are often more engaged in recovery because strengths increase this feeling that change is possible.
What is hope?
Recovery research shows that regularly engaging in meaningful, substance-free activities can increase quality of life and reduce this.
What is relapse risk?
Identifying personal values can strengthen recovery because values help guide this aspect of life.
What is decision-making?
Play --- ----
Play the Tape
This CBT skill involves identifying and challenging inaccurate or unhelpful thoughts to create more balanced thinking.
What is Cognitive Restructuring?
This cognitive distortion involves taking a single event and applying it broadly to all future situations.
What is overgeneralization?
Stigma decreases access to what services?
SUD, regular preventative care, access to resources, and harm reduction.
Challenge:
This is the ability to recognize a trigger, craving, or difficult emotion and do something to prevent returning to substance use.
What is using healthy coping skills?
This positive recovery activity involves consciously noticing and appreciating the good things in life, often through journaling or reflection.
What is practicing gratitude?
Research and recovery experience suggest that lasting sobriety is strengthened when people view themselves not just as someone avoiding substances, but as someone actively becoming this.
What is the person they want to be (or their best self) ?
Trust --- -------
Trust the Process
A person thinks, "I can't handle stress without substances," feels overwhelmed, and uses drugs or alcohol. This question asks participants to identify all three parts of the CBT Triangle involved.
Thought: "I can't handle stress without substances";
Feeling: overwhelmed/anxious;
Behavior: substance use
After one difficult day, a person thinks, "I'm never going to get better, and recovery will always be impossible." This question asks participants to identify the cognitive distortion.
What is overgeneralization and/or catastrophizing?
The criminalization of substance use has contributed to stigma by sending the message that people who use substances are dangerous or a threat to society. This stigma can be even greater for communities disproportionately affected by drug laws, particularly communities of color and individuals with low socioeconomic status. What concept is being described?
What is stigma associated with the criminalization of substance use?
Challenge
The film (Drunk in Public) serves as a reminder that untreated substance use disorders can become progressively worse over time, a concept known as this.
What is the progressive nature of addiction?
Challenege
How many years was Mark David Allen documented?
18 years
People in recovery are encouraged to see themselves as more than their past substance use. This approach focuses on the whole person rather than a diagnosis or label.
What is person-first thinking (or person-first language)?
Do the ---- right -----
Do the Next Right Thing