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Coping Skills Log

Coping skills are the bedrock of many forms of therapy. Many therapists ask their clients to practice these skills daily and record their experiences. Therapy sessions then offer an opportunity to review these notes and address obstacles, gain insights, and track progress. Our Coping Skills Log supports this approach by offering a flexible template for use with a wide range of coping skills...

Urge Surfing Script

Urge surfing helps control behaviors such as drug and alcohol use, emotional outbursts, aggression, and other unwanted impulses. The goal of this technique is to recognize and accept the feelings of an urge, rather than trying to suppress them. Relaxation and distraction are used to “surf” the urge until it fades away. T...

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Urge Surfing: Distress Tolerance Skill

Urge surfing is a technique for managing one’s own unwanted behaviors. Rather than giving in to an urge, a person learns to ride it out, like a surfer riding a wave. After a short time, the urge will pass on its own. This technique can be used to stop or reduce drug and alcohol use, emotional reactions such as “blowing up” when angry, gambling, and other unwanted behaviors. The...

Developing new healthy habits is an important part of working toward long-term goals. For example, the goal of improving one’s health can’t be achieved without habits such as eating well or exercising. To get started, it helps to create a habit plan. A habit plan involves connecting a new habit to an existing one, then rewarding the successful completion of the task. Th...

Building New Habits: Tips Sheet

It takes time, effort, and dedication to create new habits. However, it’s never too late to break bad habits, and create new healthy habits in their place. The Building New Habits: Tips Sheet provides practical guidance for creating and maintaining new habits. This worksheet covers eight tips that are great for individual or group discussion, and easy to start implementing right away....

Adult Children of Alcoholics: Discussion Questions

Many adult children of alcoholics (ACoA) experienced tumultuous childhoods that continue to impact them into adulthood. While these clients may have lived through tremendous hardships, they may have developed great strength and resilience as a result. The Adult Children of Alcoholics: Discussion Questions handout was designed to prompt conversation, exploration, and insight about growing up in a household with a caregiver who abused alcohol...

What is Addiction?

Addiction is a disease involving continued substance use despite significant substance-related problems. Addiction involves loss of control over substance use, social and occupational problems, risky use, and physical problems. The What is Addiction? printout is an introduction to the topic of addiction for clients and their families...

Social support is the help provided by other people, such as family, friends, groups, and communities. The forms of assistance that are given through social support come in many forms, and have a significant impact on a person’s well-being. Benefits of social support include improved physical health, greater resilience to stress, a feeling of security, and more....

Coping Skills: Addictions

Coping skills are one part of the puzzle that is sobriety. With the right knowledge and skills, your clients will be better prepared to face life's challenges without falling back into their old habits. The Coping Skills: Addictions worksheet organizes skills into five major categories: Social support, diversions, building new habits, prevention, and managing emotions...

Learning to identify and cope with triggers is a popular strategy for the treatment of several problems—especially anger and addictions—because of the effectiveness and intuitiveness of the approach. Our Triggers worksheet will introduce your clients to triggers with a simple definition and tips, while guiding them through the process of identifying their own triggers. Af...

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