Relapse Prevention Counseling

Course overview

This course is designed to help clinicians and counselors understand and facilitate the process of recovery among addicted clients and reduce their risk of relapse. The primary focus is reviewing clinical strategies to help clients reduce relapse risk or intervene early in the relapse process, and describe clinical tools that can be incorporated into individual, group or family sessions. Sources of information for this course are studies of treatment of addiction and relapse, clinical literature, the author's experiences as clinicians and researchers, and developing relapse prevention programs and materials for addicted individuals and families. The source material is also a reference on recovery and relapse prevention.