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Relapse Prevention Therapy (Stages (1. Stabilization: it’s important to…
Relapse Prevention Therapy
Primary Areas of Focus in RPT
Coping skills training
Cognitive therapy interventions:
Helps clients identify and change cognitive distortions that increase their vulnerability.
Denial is one of the most common cognitive distortions that addiction clients struggle with.
Cognitive therapy techniques also help clients reframe how they look at the process of change.
Behavioral techniques / lifestyle changes:
Lifestyle changes that support and enhance recovery (and help prevent relapse) are part of the behavioral aspect of RPT.
Lifestyle changes include things like establishing a regular sleep schedule, exercising regularly to boost mood, reduce anxiety, and increase self-confidence, or practicing yoga or meditation regularly in order to calm the body and mind while promoting overall wellbeing and a sense of being grounded.
Stages
1. Stabilization:
it’s important to stabilize the person’s condition to ensure the success of relapse prevention therapy. The relapse should be in clear and sober condition before embarking upon this therapy.
2. Assessment:
Various patterns including past relapses are assessed to find covert causes behind them.
3. Relapse Education:
this stage engages the person and creates awareness about the relapse process. The core of this stage is relapse is not failure and manageable. Teach people to recognize the warning signs and the process to manage them.
4. Warning Sign Identification:
Identify the issues which led to relapse.
5. Warning Sign Management:
once the warning signs have been identified, the next step is to learn to manage these signs, without resorting to drug abuse or alcohol.
6. Recovery Planning:
this stage details out the recovery plan which involves regular interaction with rehabilitation specialists to ensure that the person remains on the right track.
7. Inventory Training:
it is helpful for the relapse to undergo twice a day inventory process. The morning inventory process involves recognition and management of warning signs while evening inventory reviews issues and progress.
8. Family Involvement:
It is crucial to have supportive family and friends.
9. Follow Up:
The relapse prevention plan should be updated accordingly.
Gorski Relapse Prevention Therapy
One of the most authoritative relapse prevention plans around.
This plan is based on the observation that relapse does not occur suddenly.
It is a progressive process and shows warning signs.
Components
Relapse Prevention Therapy teaches coping strategies
(constructive ways of thinking and behaving) to deal with the immediate problems such as residual urges and cravings for the object of their addiction – mainly drugs and alcohol.
RPT provides clients with maps
showing the location of various temptation situations, pitfalls, and danger spots along the way that can throw clients off course with the lure of temptation. RPT will give clients information on detours to avoid temptation situations where possible and to help them to acquire the skills to cope with challenges
RPT helps guide clients through the tricks their minds
sometimes play on them such as making Apparently Irrelevant Decisions that set them up for trouble. RPT helps clients make important changes in their day-to-day lifestyle, and teaches them to trust in the assurance that that their sensitivity to the diverse subtleties of life’s pleasures will return once their brain’s pleasure center is not overwhelmed.
Relapse Prevention Therapy also teaches clients new methods of coping with stress.
Unrealistic expectations of perfection often set people up for disappointment in themselves. RPT encourages clients to take a more realistic approach, and learn to anticipate and cope with problematic situations.
Overview:
Relapse prevention therapy
is a form of cognitive behavior therapy designed to help individuals successfully maintain their sobriety after they’ve completed their addiction treatment.
It’s designed
to help them understand, anticipate, and manage their potential for relapse.