Alan Marlatt Relapse Prevention Model

The process a person has to go through when trying to stop using drugs and/or alcohol requires some coping skills. These coping skills will help them deal with day to day problems and prevent them to go back by avoiding relapse. Relapse prevention teaches new skills to individuals who do not know how to face the cause of their addiction. Alan Marlatt developed the “Relapse Prevention Model.” This Model uses a behavioral cognitive approach to help individuals how to recognize a high-risk situation that might bring them back to relapse. The Relapse Prevention Model is root in a research-based program that has proved to help people stay drug and/or alcohol-free. In the text are identified four different situations that might cause a relapse, as: job finding, social skills, emotion regulation, and behavioral self-control. Job finding maintains that a person with a job tries to stay sober because it helps him keep his income for living. Social skills are used as a teaching tool that seeks to avoid situations in which the person will be under pressure to use drugs or alcohol. Emotion regulation facilitates the process of identifying feelings that promote relapse in order to prevent it. Behavior self-control, also used as a teaching tool that facilitates the development of new behavioral strategies to avoid falling into relapse.
She is visiting a comprehensive "wrap-around services" health clinic for prenatal care for the first time. The medical team advises prenatal nutritional counseling and vitamins, and assesses her pregnancy as "progressing normally" at this stage. However, she has been referred to you because in the health assessment she responded that she has "always" consumed one or two drinks, almost every day, when she comes home from work to unwind from the stress of her job. There are also social events on weeknights and weekends with family and friends that typically involve light to moderate