SOWK 7371 Our Lady of The Lake University Week 1 Intervention Experience Journal Weeks 2 – 4: Daily Entries Each day (except for one day’s rest), you will

SOWK 7371 Our Lady of The Lake University Week 1 Intervention Experience Journal Weeks 2 – 4: Daily Entries
Each day (except for one day’s rest), you will journal and log your intervention experience. At the end of each
week (weeks 2 – 4), you will submit your journal and logs for grading. Each week will continue to build upon
the previous. Your journal and log should adhere to the following:
1. Report any discomfort or cravings that you experience. When do you have these uncomfortable
feelings? What cues seem to be associated with them? What are you thinking before, during and
after they occur. What helped you change the behavior at that time? If you did not refrain from using
the substance or exhibit the behavior, what happened?
2. Create a standardized manner you plan to track your progress daily (e.g., Subjective Units of
Distress Scale (SUDS) ratings [0 – 100 or 0 – 10, where 0 represents no distress and 100 or 10
represents the most distress you ever experienced] to chart your thoughts and feelings at specific
times during the day (e.g. morning, mid-afternoon, and evening).
3. Chart your distress three times per day, standardizing when and how you do, and then create and
overall average for each day; or you can choose to input your three values each day on your graph.
You will then input your daily, overall average rating into your graph. By the end of this assignment,
you should have at least 18 points of data on your graph. Use the charting to identify triggers,
patterns you may not have been aware of before, and facilitate new insight. Explore clinical tool
options to help you 1) examine your thinking, feelings and responses each day; and 2) to identify
and evaluate assumptions and core beliefs.
4. Using the information that you are learning in this course, discuss what you think may be the
emotional and/or physiological basis for your discomfort or cravings.