These behaviors create social consequences or automatic reactions from the people places, and things that are affected by the behavior. The trigger activates a thought, which activates a feeling, which creates an urge, which motivates an action, which causes a social reaction. To learn new ways to manage the high risk situation. This training will assist participants to utilize proven and effective advanced counseling strategies, and to teach the participants to help their clients effectively identify, personalize and manage their individual relapse warning signs and the progression of those warning signs in their lives. Participants will be able to help their clients to prevent relapse in latter recovery, after initial stabilization has been achieved, by identifying and managing the core personality and lifestyle problems that make them so uncomfortable in recovery that using alcohol and drugs to gain relief seems like a positive choice.
Participants can expect to be actively involved in the discussion and didactic sessions.
Participants will learn how to teach their clients to use a standard closure procedure in group and individual sessions that helps them to identify the most important thing they learned in the current session, determine what they plan to do differently as a result of what they learned, and developing a concrete and specific assignment that will lead them to the next step in the treatment plan. Return to Top 11. Participants will learn how to teach their clients to understand the general sequence of events that lead from stable recovery to relapse by reviewing and discussing a list of common Relapse Warning Signs related to core personality and lifestyle problems. Thought Management - Learning to understand and manage the irrational thoughts that drive the relapse warning signs and to replace those thoughts with rational and constructive ones. Feeling Management - Learning to understand and manage the formerly unmanageable feelings that drive the relapse warning signs and learning to think and to act in ways that will produce more manageable feelings.