Maintaining Change: A Personal Relapse Prevention Manual / Edition 1

by Hilary J. Eldridge

Overview

This user-friendly, step-by-step personal relapse prevention manual - designed to be used in conjunction with the Therapist Guide for Maintaining Change, also by Hilary Eldridge - focuses on the notion of control and taking responsibility for one's actions rather than on ‘cure'. The programme requires participants to be active in the change process, with the ultimate goal of being able to self-manage.

· Purchasers of Maintaining Changee: A Personal Relapse Prevention Manual may photocopy individual exercises and handouts for use with their own clients or patients.

· Customers purchasing the two-volume set (Therapist Guide for Maintaining Change and M

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761911067
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/23/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	0.38(w) x 8.25(h) x 11.00(d)

Table of Contents

	Handout: Introduction to the Manual	ix
Phase 1	Material	1
Handout	Introduction to Phase 1	1
Handout	Learning Control	2
Exercise	Is Offending Really So Great?	3
Exercise	Gains and Losses of Reoffending for You	4
Handout and Exercise	Does It "Just Happen"?	6
Handout	Cycles of Behavior	7
Handout	Sex Offending Cycles	10
Exercise	Your Feelings, Thoughts, and Behaviors Prior to Offending	14
Exercise	Reminder Card: Your Feelings, Thoughts, and Behaviors Prior to Offending	17
Exercise	Spot Your Own Pro-Offending Thinking Errors	18
Exercise	Thinking Errors Prior to Offending	20
Exercise	Thinking Errors in Fantasy About Sexual Abuse	21
Exercise	Reminder Card: Your Pro-Offending Thinking Errors	22
Handout	Knowing Your Own Sex Offending Cycle	24
Exercise	Knowing Your Own Sex Offending Cycle	27
Handout	Making "Breaking the Cycle" Self-Awareness Tapes for Relapse Prevention	30
Handout	Personal Monitoring and Support Networks	32
Exercise	My Support Network	33
Phase 2	Material	35
Handout	Introduction to Phase 2	35
Section A	Your Cycle and Your Routes to Relapse	35
Exercise	Alert List for Cycle	36
Handout and Exercise	Lapse and Relapse	54
Exercise	Recognizing Lapses	55
Exercise	Coping With Lapse	56
Handout	Routes to Relapse	57
Exercise	Personal Routes to Relapse	63
Exercise	Planning to Avoid Lapse	67
Handout	Self-Monitoring and Self-Awareness	70
Exercise	Urge to Lapse Monitoring Sheet	72
Exercise	Lapse Monitoring Sheet	73
Exercise	Personal Contracts to Deal With Lapse	74
Section B	Preventing and Dealing With Risky Moods	77
Handout	The Risky Mood Relapse Process: At-a-Glance Guide	78
Handout	Effective Coping Strategies for Dealing With the Risky Mood Relapse Process	79
Exercise	Personal Coping Strategies for Dealing With the Risky Mood Relapse Process	81
Handout	Changing Your Lifestyle	85
Exercise	What I Want From My Offense-Free Lifestyle	86
Exercise	Something New to Do	95
Exercise	Keeping a Diary	97
Handout and Exercise	Stress Reduction Techniques	98
Handout	Changing Your Thoughts and Feelings	102
Exercise	Thoughts and Feelings Diary	106
Exercise	Self-Fulfilling Prophecies	109
Exercise	Challenging Automatic Negative Thoughts	110
Exercise	Finding the Source of Your Thinking	113
Exercise	Predictions Versus Outcomes	116
Exercise	Feeling Better by Seeing Yourself Succeeding	120
Handout	Reading List for Feeling Good	123
Section C	Your Personal Relapse Prevention Collection: Keeping Out/Breaking Out of Your Cycle	125
Exercise	Relapse Prevention Plan	126
Exercise	Reminder Card: Maintaining an Offense-Free Lifestyle	131
Exercise	How to Keep Out of Your Cycle	132
Exercise	On the Edge of the Cycle: Reminder Cue Cards	134
Exercise	How to Break Out of Your Cycle	136
Exercise	Breaking Out of the Cycle: Reminder Cue Cards	138
Exercise	Last Ditch	140
Exercise	Last Ditch: Reminder Cue Cards	141
Handout and Exercise	Building Up Your Relapse Prevention Collection	143
Exercise	Reminder Card: Putting It All Together	146
Exercise	Personal Monitoring Network: Telephone Numbers	147
Exercise	Dealing With Lapse Effectively by Picturing Success	148
Exercise	Reminder Card: Dealing With Lapse	149
Exercise	Reminder Card: Exercises	151
Phase 3	Material	153
Handout	Introduction to Phase 3	153
Handout	Continued Use of Phases 1 and 2	154
Exercise	Making a Year-Long Plan	155
Exercise	Keeping Up the Good Work: Preventing the "Slide"	156
Handout	Reducing Stress	158
Handout	Positive Thinking	159
Exercise	Keeping a Contacts Diary	160
Handout	Staying in Touch	161
Exercise	Updating Your Relapse Prevention Collection	162