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Approaches & Services: Relapse Prevention

We help clients identify risky situations, thoughts, and emotions that can lead to relapse. By addressing these risks before they occur, we help clients develop a strategy to avoid relapse.

Prevention techniques include:

Helping clients identify, understand, and resist relapse justification rationales
Formulating specific plans-of-action to combat risky situations
Establishing new habits that are required for continued abstinence
Distinguishing between guilt and shame, and learning to cope with them
Encouraging clients to be honest with themselves despite the difficulty

Through relapse prevention, clients learn how to:

Recognize the warning signs of relapse
Progress in their recovery
Balance work and recovery
Alleviate boredom healthily
Earn back the lost trust of friends and family
Cope with others’ suspicions of continued substance abuse

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