A sick person recently pointed out to me that most of the workbooks and worksheets that they find for addiction recovery is geared toward the very starting of recovery. This sick person was looking for an exercise that could help him enlarge further in his ongoing recovery. This is what I came up with and am happy to share with you.
Continuing recovery Lifestyle Worksheet
Therapy Worksheets
You have been working on the first steps and have looked at the damage in all major areas of your life. You have been clean and sober for awhile now. You feel better physically and emotionally. Your life is changing for the better. Use this worksheet to collate where your enlarge and areas needing work. This self-assessment will help you to identify your strengths and areas needing work for your chronic increase in recovery. Apply the following questions to each of the major life areas below. Use separate paper to collate yourself and write about how you are doing on each item.
Addiction and rescue - The persisting rescue Lifestyle Worksheet
Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond Best
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Written in a clear, step-by-step style, this ideal teaching text makes cognitive therapy immediately accessible to students as well as to professionals new to cognitive therapy. The author uses a single case example to demonstrate how to conceptualize patients according to the cognitive model, plan treatment, conduct an initial session, structure therapy within and across sessions, incorporate homework, and use cognitive and behavioral techniques. Instructors will appreciate the book's emphasis on formulating cases, making decisions within therapy sessions, diagnosing problems in therapy, and using advanced techniques to modify core beliefs and underlying assumptions. Transcripts in every chapter richly illustrate the narrative.
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Questions:
1. How is your recovery and abstinence from alcohol and other drugs affecting these areas in your life currently?
2. What changes have you noticed in these areas?
3. What changes have others noticed?
4. Which areas need focus and more work?
5. What kinds of changes do you want to make?
1. Partner/spouse connection
a. The level of emotionality you contact with your spouse/partner.
b. How you deal with emotions and conflicts with your spouse/partner.
c. The level of gift that you make to the connection or the family.
l. Chores
2. Finances
3. Fun/entertainment/joy
d. Your potential to be supportive of your spouse/partner
e. Your potential to sometimes put others' needs ahead of yours
f. Your patience and tolerance over annoyances
g. Romantic gestures/activities, dates, and showing of affection
2. Money and finances
a. The level of accountability or follow-through in financial goals
b. Being proactive in production decisions about how money is spent and planning ahead c. Consulting with spouse/partner and working as a team financially d. production financial amends
3. Balancing recovery, home, work, and other priorities
a. Maintaining structure or a agenda that assists with prioritizing, stress management, and goals
b. Practicing assertiveness and being able to say "no" to requests that would lead to imbalance or more unmanaged stress.
c. Consulting with spouse/partner about conflicting demands and qoute solving priorities together
d. Communicating your needs and being responsible for your recovery. Work responsibilities a. Maintaining positive, wholesome attitude about work b. Managing stress as it occurs and replacing worry with pro-active qoute solving
4. Job performance
a. inevitable relationships with co-workers and boss.
b. Willingness to hear and reconsider feedback.
c. Dependability, punctuality, and focus
5. Friendships and other relationships
a. Willingness to spend time with in-laws and other relatives
b. production amends to family members
c. Dealing with conflicts as they occur in a wholesome manner
d. Communicating your needs. E. Taking others' feelings into account.
f. Practicing patience and tolerance of others.
6. Spirituality
a. Maintaining a helpful connection to spiritual advisors
b. Maintaining helpful routines
c. Applying an attitude of gratitude to your life
d. Being of service to others.
Addiction and rescue - The persisting rescue Lifestyle WorksheetDr. Aaron Beck lectures on CBT for Military Personnel Video Clips. Duration : 25.55 Mins.
www.beckinstitute.org This experiential workshop covers the basics of cognitive behavior therapy for mental health professionals who treat Active Duty and Veteran Military and their families. Under the direction of Judith S. Beck, PhD and David Riggs, PhD, participants will learn about the special characteristics and culture of this population and how to adapt CBT accordingly, with an emphasis on the treatment of depression and suicidality. Participants will also learn how to develop an individualized conceptualization of the client based on the Cognitive Model, plan treatment based on this conceptualization, develop a sound therapeutic alliance, structure sessions, and use CBT interventions. Techniques will be illustrated through roleplays and worksheets. This video is from a question and answer session with Dr. Aaron Beck.
Associations between single feelings, people, places, and events becomes intertwined with the alcoholic or addicts drinking and drugging behavior. When alcoholics and addicts find their way to recovery, the old associations between the drinking and drugging and the old feeling, people, places, and events persist, often triggering cravings to drink or use. When these cues trigger drinking or using memories and perhaps euphoric recall, unless you take activity to preclude cravings and possible relapse, you remain highly vulnerable to losing your recovery. These cues are ever present, but relapse can be averted.
It is leading to avoid the external triggers that are your most perilous and that are within your power to avoid. Many of these would be the confident ones such as hanging out with old drinking/using friends, or going to bars or liquor stores. Triggers that can't be avoided can be neutralized. To be ready and able to neutralize triggers that arise, you need to be able to anticipate and identify them, then have a plan of activity on how you will deal with them without drinking/using.
Therapy Worksheets
Below are areas that serve as triggers, that can set up cravings to return to drinking or using. Use this work sheet to help identify your probable risks.
Addiction and recovery - communal and Environmental Triggers For Cravings Worksheet
How to Become Smarter Best
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This text describes techniques for improving mental abilities. Some of the things it can help you to achieve include the following:
Depending on circumstances, use different lifestyles that improve one or another mental function.
Experience euphoria without drugs and come up with new ideas, when needed.
Slow down and prevent yourself from making rash, impulsive decisions, when necessary.
Sharpen your wit, become more talkative, and entertain people.
When necessary, lower your mood and increase emotional tension, which can help reduce procrastination.
Increase your score on intelligence or general aptitude tests.
Concentrate on reading and writing for many hours daily.
Increase your grade point average if you are a student or improve your job productivity if you are a knowledge worker.
Get along with people and live without arguments and conflicts.
The proposed methods are brief cooling or heating of the body (water therapy) and three different "smart diets," each suitable for a different type of task. The text also describes a "depressant diet," which is not a smart diet but can improve self-control and sleep. The strict diets do not have to be used on a permanent basis and the conventional food pyramid is recommended most of the time. Several useful social skills and studying/writing techniques are also discussed as well as the role of luck in personal achievement. Most authors in this field will tell you that you should read more books, solve mental puzzles, buy their nutritional supplements, sleep well, exercise, etc., in order to get smarter. In contrast, this book is proposing moderately cold hydrotherapy and a smart diet (which involves avoiding all dietary supplements). To give another example, most books on anger management say that you should try to change your thinking in order to overcome anger, while this book suggests hot hydrotherapy and the exclusion of certain foods from your diet. The main focus of discussion in this text is on changing the biological workings of the brain, not on pop psychology. Particularly, the book describes various combinations of diets and hydrotherapy that have the following effects: sedative/sleep- promoting, stimulant/wakefulness-promoting, attention-enhancing, antianxiety, antidepressant, mood-stabilizing (mood-lowering), and euphoriant. Additionally, existing scientific evidence of pain- reducing, fever-reducing, anti-fatigue, immunostimulatory, antinausea, antihypertensive, and anti- inflammatory effects of hydrotherapy is also presented. The possible side effects of the diets and hydrotherapy are discussed as well. Despite its technical content, the book is written in an accessible language and has an informative summary for each chapter and a list of key points at the end of each section. Most of the claims in the bulleted list above are supported by a theory and the author's personal experience (a healthy subject). About a half of these claims are directly supported by previously published scientific studies, including the claim about intelligence tests. The author's academic transcripts and test scores have been documented and can be verified independently.
How to Become Smarter Specifications
You can download and read this book for free and you will have to pay only if you enjoy the book (copy and paste the link into your browser):
rapidshare.com/files/1382308677/H11.zip
or
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This text describes techniques for improving mental abilities. Some of the things it can help you to achieve include the following:
Depending on circumstances, use different lifestyles that improve one or another mental function.
Experience euphoria without drugs and come up with new ideas, when needed.
Slow down and prevent yourself from making rash, impulsive decisions, when necessary.
Sharpen your wit, become more talkative, and entertain people.
When necessary, lower your mood and increase emotional tension, which can help reduce procrastination.
Increase your score on intelligence or general aptitude tests.
Concentrate on reading and writing for many hours daily.
Increase your grade point average if you are a student or improve your job productivity if you are a knowledge worker.
Get along with people and live without arguments and conflicts.
The proposed methods are brief cooling or heating of the body (water therapy) and three different "smart diets," each suitable for a different type of task. The text also describes a "depressant diet," which is not a smart diet but can improve self-control and sleep. The strict diets do not have to be used on a permanent basis and the conventional food pyramid is recommended most of the time. Several useful social skills and studying/writing techniques are also discussed as well as the role of luck in personal achievement. Most authors in this field will tell you that you should read more books, solve mental puzzles, buy their nutritional supplements, sleep well, exercise, etc., in order to get smarter. In contrast, this book is proposing moderately cold hydrotherapy and a smart diet (which involves avoiding all dietary supplements). To give another example, most books on anger management say that you should try to change your thinking in order to overcome anger, while this book suggests hot hydrotherapy and the exclusion of certain foods from your diet. The main focus of discussion in this text is on changing the biological workings of the brain, not on pop psychology. Particularly, the book describes various combinations of diets and hydrotherapy that have the following effects: sedative/sleep- promoting, stimulant/wakefulness-promoting, attention-enhancing, antianxiety, antidepressant, mood-stabilizing (mood-lowering), and euphoriant. Additionally, existing scientific evidence of pain- reducing, fever-reducing, anti-fatigue, immunostimulatory, antinausea, antihypertensive, and anti- inflammatory effects of hydrotherapy is also presented. The possible side effects of the diets and hydrotherapy are discussed as well. Despite its technical content, the book is written in an accessible language and has an informative summary for each chapter and a list of key points at the end of each section. Most of the claims in the bulleted list above are supported by a theory and the author's personal experience (a healthy subject). About a half of these claims are directly supported by previously published scientific studies, including the claim about intelligence tests. The author's academic transcripts and test scores have been documented and can be verified independently.
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Social and Environmental Triggers for Cravings Worksheet
People
Who are the population you used to drink or use drugs with? Make a list.
Make a list of other population that could serve as a trigger for relapse. It could be extended family members, spouse, girlfriend, your children, boss, coworkers, neighbors and any others.
Places
Where did you used to drink or use drugs?
What are the places that could trigger cravings or euphoric recall? Make a list of the places that might remind you of drinking/using or serve as trigger. Examples might include: bars, clubs, golf courses, football games and tailgating, school, work, confident streets, confident parts of town, concerts, pool halls, confident country roads, lakes, backyards.
Events
What kinds of events did you routinely share in while drinking or using drugs?
What are some of the routine events that you might share in now that could trigger cravings? Make a list of possible trigger-provoking events. Examples might include going to the lake and fishing, mowing the lawn, fund raising events, going gambling, attending music festivals, and others.
Celebrations
What are some of the celebrations or special events that you might share in that could serve as a trigger for relapse? Make a list. Examples might include: weddings, graduation, birthdays, vacation, holidays (with or without extended family members).
Other stressful events or activities
Identify other stressful events or activities that could serve as a trigger. Examples might include such things as deaths of family members, divorce, separation, money problems, getting paid, getting a raise, calls from creditors, paying bills, group meetings, long work hours, unemployment, having a baby, retiring, home alone, vacation, going by an Atm machine, home alone, looking paraphernalia, a long "to do" list.
Relationship events
What kinds of connection events were related with your drinking or drug use?
Identify connection events that could serve as a trigger. Examples might include meeting new people, going out on a date, hanging out with friends, after an argument, before sex, after sex, viewing pornography, family visits, having a baby, separation, divorce, marriage.
Time
When did you ordinarily drink or use?
Identify specific times of day, week, month or year that may serve as a trigger for relapse. Examples might be Monday (Monday night football), Sunday (gearing up to go back to work), anniversary date or month of traumatic events, after work, before work, trying to get to sleep, waking in the night, and any other times that are significant.
Making a plan.
Looking back over your lists above, identify actions that you can take to sell out the threat to your recovery. Which events can you avoid?
Which events or situations can you fly from if you feel vulnerable? How can you empower yourself to escape?
Ex: convention being assertive with leaving a risky situation. Use cognitive therapy to challenge unrealistic mental that might keep you from leaving when you need to. Make a plan on how you could escape. Example: Drive yourself, walk out, call a cab, have an Aa call list and have man come get you.
What can you do to change how you think or feel when you find yourself in an confident position that is triggering a desire to use?
Ex: Use conception stopping techniques to administrate cravings when they occur. Use the phone. Call your sponsor. Call your counselor or man in Aa/Na. Engage man who is supportive of your rescue in a conversation. Remind yourself that cravings are temporary and that they will go away if you do not use. Remember that cravings are a general part of rescue and that they do not doom you to failure. Remind yourself that you have the choice whether you act on your cravings. Think of a craving as a contest between you and your disease. Who will win?
Addiction and recovery - communal and Environmental Triggers For Cravings WorksheetAlbert Ellis and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) Video Clips. Duration : 8.08 Mins.
Jeffrey Guterman describes the theory and practice of Albert Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) across the following issues: human nature, theory of problem formation, theory of change, and techniques. Topics include the ABC theory, the distinction between rational beliefs and irrational beliefs, and disputing irrational beliefs. See www.jeffreyguterman.com for more information. Erratum About half way through the video (at 04:55), Jeffrey Guterman incorrectly uses the term "irrational beliefs" to refer to "preferences, wishes, hopes, desires, likes, and wants..." when it was his intention to refer to "rational beliefs."
