Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT) Treatment Plan

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1.    Problem Title:  Pattern of Periodic Relapse

2.    Problem Description: The client has a pattern of periodic relapse caused by their inability to identify & manage the core personality & lifestyle problems that can lead to relapse in latter recovery after a stable recovery plan has been established

3.    Goal: The client will identify and learn to manage the core personality and lifestyle problems that lead to relapse.

4.    Interventions:  The client will participate in a combination of group and individual sessions, psychoeducational sessions, supervised study halls, and self-help group meetings, in which the following interventions will be implemented:

(1)   Presenting Problem Analysis: The client will create a list of their presenting problems, identifies the relationship of each of those problems to their pattern of chronic relapse, projects logical consequences into the future if nothing changes and makes a commitment to change the core personality and lifestyle problems that cause relapse

(2)   Life and Addiction History:  The client will identify lifestyle problems that increase the risk of relapse by completing a detailed life and addiction history of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

(3)   Recovery and Relapse History:  The client will identify factors leading to past relapses by completing a relapse calendar and a detailed analysis of relapse episodes.

(4)   Warning Sign Review:  The client will identify the warning signs that lead from stable recovery to relapse by reviewing a list of common warning signs and identifying three personal warning signs.

(5)   Warning Sign Analysis:  The client will identify the hidden warning signs that have led to past relapses by describing past experiences with his or her personal warning signs and identifying the thoughts, feelings, urges, and actions that comprise his or her self-defeating responses to those warning signs.

(6)   Final Warning Sign List:  The client will develop a final list of personal warning signs that lead from stable recovery to relapse;  identify the related irrational thoughts, unmanageable feelings, self-destructive urges, and self-defeating behaviors that drive those warning signs; and identify three critical warning signs.

(7)   Warning Sign Management: The client identifies and changes the thoughts, feelings, urges, actions, and reactions that prevent effective management of the critical warning signs.

(8)   Recovery Planning:  The client will develop a schedule of recovery activities that will support the ongoing identification and management of core personality and lifestyle problems, test this schedule by identifying how each activity can be adapted to help him or her identify and manage those personality and lifestyle problems, and develop a final recovery plan that addresses all critical warning signs.

4.    Overall Response:  The client has developed the overall ability to identify and responsibly manage the core personality and life style problems that lead from stable recovery to relapse after a stable recovery has been implemented.

This Treatment Plan May Be Reproduced With Permission 
If The Source Is Appropriately Referenced