This course outlines the basic structure for relapse prevention groups and programs across practice settings ranging from inpatient to outpatient, for both the substance abusing clients and clients with co-occurring disorders, traditional theory and technique will be presented, as well as currently identified assessment, theories and techniques of relapse based on empirical-driven best clinical practices. This course addresses how to help, or improve the student's ability to: articulate the Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS) that affects virtually all of their clients but is information that is seemingly not well known by many clinicians,
to better assist the students in "normalizing” these symptoms for their clients; and develop an "integrated” approach for either establishing, or improving, across treatment settings.