Relapse Prevention Strategies
PPT stands for this.
What is People, Places and Things?
It's important NOT to be this when helping our clients set their goals for change.
What is overly directive?
A ______ is an uncontrolled return to substance use following competent treatment or a substantial period of sobriety.
What is a relapse?
You should just give a client a relapse prevention plan without discussing it.
This is usually the first link in the relapse chain.
What is buildup or onset of stress?
In this method, clients are provided with a list of situations where they rate their confidence to avoid a relapse.
What is direct observation?
This is any situation that threatens a client's sense of self-control and could lead to relapse and should be examined in treatment.
What are high-risk situations?
A ________ is neither catastrophic nor regressive, it is a temporary occurrence of substance use and does not have to be damaging in itself.
What is a slip?
Relapse is does not have to be part of recovery but is common in SUD treatment.
What is true?
What is overly negative thoughts/moods/stinkin' thinkin?'
Providing clients with training on managing difficult emotions, relaxation, decision making skills and communicating skills would examples of providing this.
What are coping skills?
This can happen when a traumatic situation builds into a relapse, or in which clients treat themselves for good behavior with their previous addiction. Could also be called the "F-Its."
What is the Abstinence Violation Effect?
These are symptoms that can manifest for 6 months to 2 years.
Clients can go through multiple stages of change when making a behavior change.
What is a high-risk situation?
This is skill that all clients require practice with as it's part of life and can be a common trigger for substance use.
What is stress management?
Treatment usually stops at this stage, according to Gorski, which can be challenging as it limits time to get to deeper issues that may influence substance use.
What is early recovery?
At a deeper level, this technique asks that someone consider where they are experiencing lack, who or what has violated them, where do they need support, what has caused them to be discouraged?
What is HALT?
Brain dysfunction occurs during substance use and can cause short term and long-term withdrawal symptoms.
What is true?
Confronting a high-risk situation with awareness and honesty with oneself can help increase this.
What is self-efficacy?
This involves imagining yourself refusing a drink at a holiday work party or completing a task without the use of a stimulant, and building confidence with which to do so.
These are the three areas that Gorski states we must work with clients in to achieve competent functioning.
In this technique, the client may say “I’m experiencing a conditioned response that manifests itself as craving. If I experience the feeling and do not give in to it, it will pass, and eventually the frequency of these feelings will decrease greatly.”
All people with substance use disorders will experience difficult withdrawal symptoms and require professional treatment to manage these.
What is false?
Considering driving by your ex-partner's house where you spent a significant amount of time engaging in substance use just to "see who might be hanging out" is an example of this.
What is an apparently irrelevant decisions?