What Is Relapse Prevention Therapy? Relapse prevention therapy is a structured cognitive behavioral approach, most commonly used in substance use treatment, that helps people identify personal high-risk situations for relapse and develop specific coping strategies and skills to maintain recovery over time. How It Works This approach is based on the understanding that relapse often …
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Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT)
What Is Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT)? Community reinforcement and family training (CRAFT) is a structured behavioral approach that works with family members or loved ones of a person with a substance use disorder, teaching skills to improve communication, reduce conflict, and encourage the person to engage in treatment, without requiring the person with …
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Seeking Safety
What Is Seeking Safety? Seeking Safety is a structured, present-focused psychotherapy designed specifically for people with co-occurring trauma-related symptoms (such as PTSD) and substance use difficulties, emphasizing safety, coping skills, and stabilization rather than detailed processing of traumatic memories. How It Works This approach is based on the understanding that people with co-occurring trauma and …
Community Reinforcement Approach
What Is Community Reinforcement Approach? The community reinforcement approach is a comprehensive behavioral treatment for substance use disorders that works to rearrange a person’s lifestyle so that positive reinforcement from work, family, social relationships, and recreational activities supports sobriety more strongly than substance use does. How It Works This approach is based on the understanding …
Behavioral Couples Therapy
What Is Behavioral Couples Therapy? Behavioral couples therapy is a structured couples therapy applying behavioral principles, such as positive reinforcement and structured communication training, to improve relationship functioning; a specialized adaptation is used specifically to support recovery when one partner has a substance use disorder. How It Works This approach uses behavioral techniques, including structured …
Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention
What Is Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention? Mindfulness-based relapse prevention is a structured group program that integrates mindfulness meditation practices with cognitive behavioral relapse prevention skills, designed for people in recovery from substance use disorders to help manage cravings and reduce relapse risk. How It Works This approach combines mindfulness practices for observing cravings and difficult emotions …
Multidimensional Family Therapy
What Is Multidimensional Family Therapy? Multidimensional family therapy is a comprehensive, developmentally informed family therapy model developed primarily for adolescent substance use and related behavioral problems, addressing multiple domains including the adolescent individually, parenting practices, family interactions, and involvement with outside systems such as school or juvenile justice. How It Works This model integrates individual, …
Motivational Enhancement Therapy
What Is Motivational Enhancement Therapy? Motivational enhancement therapy is a brief, structured treatment approach that applies motivational interviewing principles across a defined, limited number of sessions, typically incorporating personalized feedback about a person’s substance use patterns compared to normative data. How It Works This approach combines the collaborative, motivation-building style of motivational interviewing with structured …
Contingency Management
What Is Contingency Management? Contingency management is a structured behavioral treatment approach, most commonly used in substance use treatment, that provides tangible incentives or rewards contingent on specific measurable behaviors, such as verified abstinence from substance use. How It Works Contingency management is based on established principles of operant conditioning, in which reinforcing a desired …
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
What Is Motivational Interviewing (MI)? Motivational interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, client-centered counseling style designed to strengthen a person’s own motivation for and commitment to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence, most commonly used in the context of substance use but applicable to other health behaviors. How It Works MI is based on the principle …