Professional Practice Tools
1) Grounding Exercise - This exercise helps bring you into contact with the moment and is especially helpful when one is feeling anxious or is having a panic attack. It lets the brain focus in on something and allows the mind to calm.
1) Grounding Exercise - This exercise helps bring you into contact with the moment and is especially helpful when one is feeling anxious or is having a panic attack. It lets the brain focus in on something and allows the mind to calm.
| Grounding Exercise |
2) Replacing Negative Cognitions Exercise - This exercise helps the client recognize the triggers that are bringing the negative feelings or thoughts, identify the thoughts and emotions associated with them, work through the negative cognition to understand why it is not correct, develop an alternative, more positive thought, and then recognize and name the new feeling associated with this new thought.
| Replacing Negative Cognitions Exercise |
3) Wellness Wheel Assessment - This exercise helps give clients a very visual understanding of how the seven dimensions or areas of their life that make up their overall health are functioning. The client can look over each area, reading some of the prompts to help understand that area of wellness, and decide both how important that area of wellness is in their life and the current level of functioning for that area. In this way, clients can begin to understand, in a very visual way, which areas of their lives need the most priority.
| Wellness Wheel Assessment |
| Wellness Wheel Prompts |
4) Mutual Help Group Websites - This is a great list for those that need help with substance abuse or process disorders. The list includes mutual help group websites for Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, SMART Recovery, Al Anon, and Overeaters Anonymous.
| Mutual Help Group Websites List |
5) Models of Addiction - This two-page handout helps clinicians understand the different models of addiction. These models give different ways to look at addiction and their causes. Each model has its own assumptions, advantages, and disadvantages but when applied, they can help determine the right treatment for those with substance abuse.
| Models of Addiction |
