Aim:

Relapse Prevention (stress inoculation) assists clients in the anticipation, preparation and rehearsal of confronting high risk situations. Designed as a community based treatment programme it aims to foster the client’s mastery of levels of dealing with the 8 key relapse determinants and to sustain a drug free lifestyle. The programme also explores key issues in relapse, such as abstinence versus control use, gender and age specific issues and extra-therapeutic factors.

Participants get opportunities to:

• understand and deploy key assessment tools in profiling clients’ relapse risk hierarchy.
• learn how to provide key interventions to assist clients who are newly drug free.
• learn skills for fostering self-efficacy to sustain change in stabilised clients.
• understand research findings into the nature of relapse and their relevance within treatment programmes.
• learn how to use clear task-orientated homework programmes to accelerate clients’ learning processes.

Day One

Times	Session Content
9.30 am	Introductions and Climate Setting
9.45	Session 1: What is Recovery?  Discussion in groups Treatment models of recovery; The life course and recovery
11.00	Break
11.15	Session 2: Self-Belief and Change C.B.T; Self-belief
1.00 pm	Lunch
2.00	Session 3: Social Learning Model Early Interventions; Cravings; Core skills; Visualisations
3.00	Break
3.15	Session 4: Thought Distortions Seemingly irrelevant decisions; Twisted thinking
4.00	Close

Day Two

9.30	Session 1: Assessing Individual Risk Factors. Inventory of risk assessments
11.00	Break
11.15	Session 2: Stress Inoculation. Coping domains; Setting homework tasks; Learning from experience
1.00 pm	Lunch
2.00	Session 3:  Working with Lapse Assertive outreach; Forbidden fruit effects; ABC’s
3.00	Break
3.15	Session 4:  Practice Considerations Community versus residential Relationship factors and retention
4.15	Review and Evaluation
4.30	Close