PCN 265 Topic 3 High-Risk Situation
High-Risk Situation
High-threat situations in recovery are circumstances in which an existent’s attempt to chorus from a particular gest that ranges from a small quantum to a dangerous position of use is threatened (Chang, Yen, & Campbell- Heider, 2012). Each customer’s high-threat situation will be different. Some situations may be considered a high threat to some that won’t impact others. As a counselor, it’s their job to educate each customer in assessing their individual high-threat situations. By educating guests on their particular triggers, an effective forestallment plan can be established.
Numerous guests don’t understand the connection between high-threat situations and relapse; thus, they aren’t apprehensive about how to avoid situational pitfalls as numerous of these situations place them in a natural habit situation. Some of the highest-threat relapse situations are negative feelings similar to stress or disaffection, testing particular control in previous social engagement, social pressure among family and musketeers, and prompt and temptations, especially beforehand in recovery(El-Sheikh, S.-G., & Bashir, T.Z.( 2004).
PCN 265 Topic 3 High-Risk Situation
High-threat Script
Two manly guests, Sean and Matt, are in captivity and have been for five times; both guests have been sharing in Allowing Straight, SMART Recovery, and Stinking Allowing programs offered on their yards. Upon release, celebratory parties are thrown for their release. Sean’s family has invited nothing but family members, whereas Matt’s guest list consists of old musketeers and only many family members who haven’t given up on him due to the destructive path his dependence has caused.
Sean
Sean is girdled by nothing but family; his family loves to have get-togethers and has been staying for times to see him outside the gates. There’s a lot of food, beer, and stories to be told. Sean was in no way a toper. Through his recovery trip, he has learned that admitting he has a problem with anodynes and being forthcoming about his dependence on his family will lessen the disaffection of hiding a dirty little secret. As the night goes on and the stories are being told, Sean drinks a beer. Sean knows he doesn’t have a drinking problem; he’s a medicine addict. As the night goes on, the beer continues, and so do the stories. By the end of the night, Sean is drunk; his inhibitions are numb.
PCN 265 Topic 3 High-Risk Situation
Sean has decided he can take a lozenge to help the goods of a leftover, and just one lozenge won’t beget detriment since he used to take ten or further in a day. At first, it appears Sean has slipped in his recovery; still, one lozenge turns to two, and also, ten is right around the corner. According to K. Witkiewitz, when an existent is in recovery, they should also avoid using other substances outside of their primary dependence. As any other substance use during recovery could lower the inhibitions and is considered a high threat, a combination of threat factors may inversely impact the use of alcohol, as well as relapse to medicine use.
Matt
Matt is reluctant to attend this festivity as he’s doubtful how he’ll handle the small number of people still by his side. Matt is apprehensive about his destructive history and has only been suitable to make amends through letters. Matt has gathered his guests to explain his recovery path to them and partake in the effects that he has done to change his life. By being forthcoming about his dependence, Matt has been informed that over half of his guests are also in recovery and are there to support him on his trip. Matt now realizes that, indeed though his support group may be small, he’s not alone in his recovery trip. Matt’s family has been going to support group meetings as well, and the formerly broken foundation is on the mend.
PCN 265 Topic 3 High-Risk Situation
Matt has a better chance to succeed in recovery as he has a strong support group that doesn’t cast shame and judgment on his once actions. Although these are fictitious guests, the script is not. Guests who compass themselves with a positive support group on the morning of their recovery trip are more likely to succeed. These guests were both without medicines five times, and both learned the tools to be successful; still, formerly faced with the true-life walls, the knowledge hadn’t been put to use. A customer is more likely to fall in the morning stages of dealing with their once transgressions, not inescapably fresh out medicines. Recovery begins when a customer learns how to deal with impulses, triggers, stress, and walls that they will face in their recovery process.
References
High- threat Situations Related to Relapse of Methamphetamine Use among Taiwanese Adolescents An Instrumentation Study, by Chang, Yen, & Campbell- Heider, from Journal of Dependences Nursing( 2012).
El- Sheikh,S.-G., & Bashir,T.Z.( 2004). High- threat relapse situations and tone-efficacy Comparison between rummies and heroin addicts. Addicting Actions, 29( 4), 753 – 758.
https//doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2004.02.003
Witkiewitz,K.( 2013). Is alcohol use following medicine treatment further than just a threat factor? Dependence, 108( 7), 1196 – 1197.
