Maintenance Relapse Prevention

Maintenance and relapse prevention are the most important factors in succeeding after treatment or abstinence from any substance are achevied. Many components attribute to maintenance and unfortunately once treatment is completed and the client returns to everyday life the true challenges present themselves. Client while in treatment is very well connected with others who are battling and overcoming addiction; as well as professionals training to deal with the tools Client needs to overcome the addiction. However the opposite exist when Client returns to his surroundings. Most often the triggers that lead to relapse are nestled into the Client’s surrounding making maintenances a difficult challenge.

Relapse is defined
People, places and thing are often a great fuel for relapse. When in treatment with a professional, a client will work on identifying HRS to develop a tailored treatment plan that will prove most effective for the individual. The importance of identifying these components will give the client a greater chance of success with abstinence. When a client is armed and geared with the tools they need to battle addiction, the client is more apt to use everything they have learned to maintain sobriety. This also empowers clients to be proactive in their choices and decisions when they are facing temptation in the face. Though identifying HRS the choice still lays in the hands of the client. More than simply identifying HRS is needed for relapse prevention. Solutions and mechanisums to dealing with HRS are the key to prevailing.

When a client returns home from treatment and/or is faced with an unchanged surroundings and people who either indulged with them in the negative behaviors; relapse is more likely than not, going to occur. This is the point where the relapse preventions steps in and the various techniques of therapeutic methods used to overcome addictive behaviors are applied. Prevention, as mentioned with relapse, can be modified to different degrees for different
In the case study self-assessment was key with client because his level of addiction was part of his everyday life for so many years. This being the case client’s HRS monitor would be key to cliet’s treatment because he will have to strongly monitor in order to avoid relapse. The sel-mointoring chart is a great tool in working with client because it maps out clearly situation,thought, feeling and action. Detering client’s mind from taking a drink to relax. Instead client has identified health ways of dealing with situations, thoughts and feelings. Replacing negative behaviors with positive behaviors are essential in treatment. As true with children, individual like Thomas with hibutial addictions need to relearn behavior to replace the addictive behaviors. Addiction becomes aways of daliy living and becoming abstenice leave a lot of time on a persons hands. Idle time is never good for a person in recovery. Needing to fill the time once spent with attaining the substance , using it, being intoxociated and repeating the cycle; new learned behaviors and activities must replace the idel time once in recovery. As mentioned throughout this paper tecnques for lapse (single use) and relapse (out of control use) prevention are to be clearly defined in treatment. Client must understand that a lapse can be