Relapse prevention - Article: Larimer: relapse prevention (marlatt's cognitive-behavioral model)

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What is the RP model by Marlatt and gordon

  • It has immediate determinants (high-risk situation, coping skills, outcome expectancies, abstinence violation effect)
  • Covert antecedents (lifestyle factors, urges and cravings)
  • Based on social cognitive theory

Immediate risk situations

  • High risk situations
    • Emotional state (positive/negative)
    • Social pressure
  • Coping skills
    • Low self-efficacy
  • Outcome expectancies
    • Expect positive outcome when doing negative behavior
  • Abstinence violation effect
    • One lapse indicator of relapse
    • Look at drinker's emotional response to initial lapse

Some interventions for relapse/lapse

  • Identifying and coping w/ high-risk situations
  • Enhancing self-efficacy
  • Eliminating myths and placebo effects
  • Lapse management
  • Cognitive restructuring
  • Global lifestyle self-control strategies
  • Balanced lifestyle and positive addiction
  • Stimulus-control techniques
  • Urge-management techniques
  • Relapse road maps

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