| CS1 |
Coping Skills For Emergencies |
Clients learn to identify their own highest risk
situations, the cues that they are becoming at higher risk, what they
will do to cope effectively, and then practice these new coping skills
until they are confident they will work. Included in these skills are
thought stopping, conflict avoidance and “escape” skills, and a
comprehensive set of “refusal skills.” |
PDF |
| CS1b |
Critical coping skills (individual lessons) |
Critical coping skills lessons (thought stopping,
thought switching, etc.), including lesson plans, skills practice
activities and instructor’s scripts. |
PDF |
| CS4 |
Coping Skills, Set 3: Techniques For Handling
Uncomfortable Feelings and Thoughts |
Provides guidance in mastery of thirteen coping skills
important for relapse prevention. |
PDF |
| CS4b |
Breathing/Relaxation skills (individual
lessons) |
Critical coping skills lessons (breathing/relaxation
skills), including lesson plans, skills practice activities and
instructor’s scripts. |
PDF |
| CS4c |
Creative visualization and relaxation (individual
lessons) |
Critical coping skills lessons (creative visualization
and relaxation), including lesson plans, skills practice activities and
instructor’s scripts. |
PDF |
| CS10 |
Reducing Your Risk |
Workbook for reducing consequences of behaviors.< |
PDF |
| ST1 |
“Downers”: “stinking thinking” and low self-esteem (#1)
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51 separate “stinking thinking” issues are addressed in
this series, using worksheets for cognitive restructuring. Each lesson
provides examples of this form of cognitive distortion, asks
participants to examine their own thinking, then guides the
examination—including consequences. Worksheets guide the development of
new ways of thinking and responding.
Counselors are provided tools to help select appropriate
lessons for use with individual or groups. Major topic areas include
criminal thinking, negativity, manipulation of others, and issues which
emerge in recovery programs and groups.
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PDF |
| ST2 |
“Stinking thinking” and other people (controlling,
anger, and dishonesty) (#2) |
PDF |
| ST3 |
“Stinking thinking”...and people in recovery (#3) |
PDF |
| ST6 |
Stinking Thinking And Gang Activity |
PDF |
| ST4 |
“Stinking Thinking” Review |
Review sheet for ST1, ST2, and ST3 |
PDF |
| ST5 |
Positive Self-Talk |
Practical workbook for addressing negative thinking. |
PDF |
| F3 |
Anxiety and Fear |
Identifies client anxiety symptoms, issues, stressors,
and triggers. Topics include fears, phobias, and unnecessary worries.
Links anxiety to dependencies. |
PDF |
| SD2 |
"What’s wrong with ‘people pleasing’?" |
Addresses specific issues in dependent relationships.
Addresses people pleasing as a form of codependent behavior, a
manipulation and control issue, and as a form of compensating for
underlying issues (including low-self-esteem). |
PDF |
| DI11 |
“What’s wrong with my feelings?” - Problems with
anxiety, dependency, and helplessness |
This workbook guides self-analysis of: (1) experiences
with anxiety and worry; (2) anxiety concerning masculinity; (3)
thinking underlying helplessness and relapse; (4) feelings of
helplessness. Clients develop action plan for addressing issues of
helplessness. |
PDF |
| CS3 |
Coping skills set 2: establishing a safer environment |
Clients are guided to identify their most dangerous
temptations, high risk people, places, things, feelings, and
situations. They will identify areas of continued vulnerability to old
temptations. Clients will complete action plans to avoid high risk
people, places, things, and situations. |
PDF |
| SA2 |
Self-awareness: examining your pattern or cycle in
detail |
Provides basic vocabulary for substance abuse
treatment. Explains typical patterns of dependencies and relapse.
Guides clients to examine past use and stages in personal relapse
"cycle." Clients identify vulnerabilities, specific triggers to past
difficulties, and "stinking thinking" (about self, about other people,
not being realistic, negative thinking about the future, etc.). Clients
describe how feelings of discomfort have been dealt with, how isolation
may have been a contributing factor in past difficulties, typical
patterns of "build up" toward relapse, the need for control of
uncomfortable feelings, and steps taken in the past to achieve that
feeling of control, and how they began to plan or "set themselves up"
for relapse. Additionally, clients describe the specific temptations
experienced in various categories, their most common harmful behaviors
or dependencies, their thinking, feelings, and behavior after relapse,
and issues resulting from relapse. |
PDF |
| W3 |
Control! |
Identifies and addresses range of controlling behaviors
and control issues and links controlling with dependencies. Topics
include need to control feelings and controlling of others. |
PDF |
| SP3 |
Learning how to keep life in balance |
Workbook guides clients to: (1) evaluate cues that they
are out of balance; (2) develop a balance of activities and
friendships; (3) identify specific ways to keep today in balance; (4)
change the balance from dependence to independence. |
PDF |
| DI8 |
“What’s wrong with ‘people pleasing’?” |
Addresses specific issues in dependent relationships.
Addresses people pleasing as a form of codependent behavior, a
manipulation and control issue, and as a form of compensating for
underlying issues (including low-self-esteem) |
PDF |
| DI9 |
“What’s wrong with trying to ‘fit in’?—Issues with
conformity and rigidity |
4 hours; addresses issues of over-conformity and
”hiding” by apparent conformity, including underlying self-confidence
issues. In addition, it helps clients examine over-rigidity (personal
and interpersonal inflexibility) and its’ relationship to compulsive
behaviors. |
PDF |
| CS2 |
Coping skills for relapse prevention, set 1: techniques
for use when you are at greatest risk |
Provides guidance and practice in mastery of seven
emergency skills - to address areas of temptation to relapse (or to act
out anger, etc.). Guides the development of personal action plan for
use of immediate measures at highest risk situations. |
PDF |
| CS9 |
Managing Your Stress |
Basic stress management workbook, including
self-examination, symptoms awareness, identification of triggers,
underlying stressors and lifestyle issues, evaluation of past coping,
and introduction to several key coping skills. (5 hours) |
PDF |
