Treatment
The "Medical Model" and the "Social/Behavioral Model"
What are the general approaches to Treatment?
Not using alcohol and other mood-altering drugs is essential in the treatment of chemical dependency.
What is abstinence?
The need to establish a chemical-free lifestyle.
What is the "Early Recovery Period"?
This may occur if a client does not change their people, places and things.
What is "Relapse"?
A process of becoming unable to cope with life in
sobriety.
What is "Relapse"?
1. Abstaining from alcohol and other drugs
2. Separating from people, places, and things that promote the use of alcohol or drugs, and establishing a social network that supports recovery
3. Stopping self-defeating behaviors that prevent awareness of painful feelings and irrational
thoughts
What are some components of "Relapse Prevention Treatment"?
1. Malnutrition and metabolic dysfunction.
2. Liver disease and other medical complications.
3. Brain dysfunction
4. Addictive preoccupation.
5. Social Consequences
What problems/effects do people have when they use alcohol or drugs?
A process that takes place over time, in specific stages.
What is recovery?
If a recovering person is unaware of this progression, unable to accomplish the tasks and gain the skills, or lacks adequate treatment.
What is the risk of relapse?
The first time a person experiences an alcohol or drug-related problem.
What is the Transition Stage?
These are based on the idea that once a person is detoxified, they can fully participate in the treatment process.
What is the "Traditional Model" of treament?
A disease caused by the use of alcohol and/ or drugs, causing changes ina person's body, mind, and behavior.
What is Chemical Dependency/Addiction?
The life-long process of continued growth and development, coping with adult life transitions, managing routine life problems, and guarding against relapse.
What is the "Maintenance Stage"?
These are activated by high-risk situations and stress.
What are "Addictive Preoccupations"?
These clients fall into the following categories: Transitional Clients, unstabilized relapse-prone patients, stabilized relapse-prone patients.
What are "Relapse Prone Patients"?
1. Recognition that chemical dependency is a bio/psycho/social disease
2. Recognition of the need for life-long abstinence from all mind-altering drugs
3. Development and use of an ongoing recovery program to maintain abstinence
4. Diagnosis and treatment of other problems or conditions that can interfere with recovery.
What are the four goals in primary treatment of SUD?
When someone is raised in families that
did not provide proper support, guidance, and values.
What is developing self-defeating personality styles that interfere with their ability to recover?
The development of a balanced lifestyle.
What is the "Middle Recovery Period"?
1. Recovery-Prone
2. Briefly Relapse-Prone
3. Chronically Relapse-Prone
What are the categories of "Recovery/Relapse History"?
Relapsers need accurate information about what causes relapse and what can be done to prevent
it.
What is "Relapse Education"?
1. The type and intensity of treatment depend on the patient's:
2. Current physical, psychological, and social problems
3. Stage and type of addiction(s)
4. Stage of recovery
5. Personality traits and social skills before the onset of addiction
6. Other factors in life that cause stress.
What are the areas essential for full recovery?
Usually lasts 6 months to 2 years after abstinence.
What is Post Acute Withdrawal?
A person makes changes in ongoing personality issues that have continued to interfere with life satisfaction.
What is the "Late Recovery Period"?
1. Exposure to alcohol or drugs or associated paraphernalia
2. Exposure to places where alcohol or drugs are used
3. Exposure to people with whom the patient has used in the past or people the patient knows who are actively using
4. Lack of a stable home environment
5. Lack of a stable social environment
Lack of stable employment.
What are "High Risk Situations"?
When chemically dependent people experience physical withdrawal and other medical problems, learn how to break the psychological conditioning causing the urge
to use, and stabilize the crisis that motivated them to seek treatment, and learn to identify and manage
symptoms of brain dysfunction.
What is the "Stabilization Period"?