Clinical Pathways Resource Guide - CEIC

Use of Relapse Prevention Techniques
�� A central element of all clinical approaches to relapse
prevention is anticipating problems that are likely to arise in
maintaining change and labeling them as high-risk high risk situations
for resumed substance use, then helping clients to develop
effective strategies to cope with those high-risk high risk situations
without having a lapse.
�� A key factor in preventing relapse is to understand that
relapses are preceded by triggers or cues that signal that
trouble is brewing and that these triggers precede exposure
to events or internal processes (high-risk (high risk situations) where or
when resumed substance use is likely to occur.
Adapted from Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons With Co-Occurring Disorders, TIP 42
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