Therapeutic Components of Relapse Prevention

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• 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.

 

• 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. This will give clients information on detours to avoid temptation situations where possible and to help them to acquire the skills to cope with challenges

 

• Guide clients through the tricks their minds sometimes play on them such as making poor decisions that set them up for trouble. Help 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. Our addiction relapse prevention encourages clients to take a more realistic approach and learn to anticipate and cope with problematic situations. Whether you call it relapse or recurrence of symptoms, when or if it happens, Safe Haven therapists know it isn’t a sign of failure, or proof of a fatal character flaw. Chronic illnesses are, by definition, chronic. We assist clients to learn how to quickly recoup and move forward.

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