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  Relapse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A relapse (etymologically, "who falls again") occurs when a person is affected again by a condition that affected them in the past.
Relapse is particulary important term in cancer therapy.
For the Spanish Inquisition, a relapse was a Jew who converted to Christianity and later returned to Judaism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Relapse   (172 words)

  
 The Relapse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Relapse came close to not being produced at all, but the successful performance that was eventually achieved in November 1696 vindicated Vanbrugh's intentions, as well as saving the company from bankruptcy.
Trickster subplot in The Relapse: Tom Fashion, pretending to be Lord Foppington, parleys with Sir Tunbelly Clumsey in a 19th-century illustration by William Powell Frith.
The Relapse is singled out for particular censure in the Puritan clergyman Jeremy Collier's anti-theatre pamphlet Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698), which attacks its lack of poetic justice and moral sentiment.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Relapse   (3168 words)

  
 Close to Home - Science: Relapse and Craving
But relapse is usually preceded by other problems that make a recovered addict vulnerable.
Most relapses among addicts occur when they are in a "negative mood state," says Leshner.
If the addict identifies why a relapse has occurred, he or she may be better able to avoid it the next time.
www.pbs.org /wnet/closetohome/science/html/relapse.html   (905 words)

  
 Relapse and Craving-Alcohol Alert No. 06-1989
These inves tigators formulated a cognitive-behavioral analysis of relapse, positing that relapse is influenced by the interaction of conditioned high-risk environmental situations, skills to cope with the high-risk situations, level of perceived personal control (self-efficacy), and the anticipated positive effects of alcohol.
An analysis of 48 episodes revealed that most relapses were associated with three high-risk situations: (1) frustration and anger, (2) social pressure, and (3) interpersonal temptation (17).
There is continuing and growing concern among clinicians about the high rate of relapse among their patients, and the increasingly adverse consequences of continuing disease.
pubs.niaaa.nih.gov /publications/aa06.htm   (2188 words)

  
 CORK Bibliography: Relapse
Relapse can be modeled in laboratory animals a reinstatement procedure in which responding for drug is extinguished and then reinstated by acute exposure to the drug, drug cues, or stress.
Conclusions: The risk of relapse with substance use was increased in health care professionals who used a major opioid or had a coexisting psychiatric illness or a family history of a substance use disorder.
Relapse prevention approaches may be best suited for persons in the action of maintenance stages of treatment or recovery.
www.projectcork.org /bibliographies/data/Bibliography_Relapse.html   (18277 words)

  
 Family & The Relapse Symdrome - #2 - TLC The Living Center
Family Relapse Prevention Planning is intended to help prevent acute relapse episodes in the recovering addict, to prevent crisis in the co-addict, to develop a relapse prevention plan for both the addict and co-addict and to develop an early intervention plan to interrupt acute relapse episodes in both the recovering addict and the co-addict.
For the recovering addict relapse may ultimately lead to alcohol and drug use, or it may simply mean that the person becomes so depressed, anxious, angry, or upset that he is dysfunctional in sobriety.
For the co-addict relapse means the return to a state of co-addict crisis that interferes with normal functioning.
www.tlctx.com /ar_pages/family_two.htm   (2023 words)

  
 Relapse Prevention Therapy: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Relapse rates, usually measured as any use of a substance after a period of abstinence, are notoriously high.
In most of the relapse episodes we have studied or worked with clinically, the first lapse is precipitated in a high-risk situation that clients report they were not expecting and/or were poorly prepared for.
The process of relapse set-ups is determined by a number of covert antecedents that eventually lead to exposure to a high-risk situation, but also allow the individual to deny any responsibility for it.
nationalpsychologist.com /articles/art_v9n5_3.htm   (926 words)

  
 Relapse
Having no relapse is the best scenario for all of us and while accepting the reality of its potential we should not use the fact that it may happen as an excuse for actually having a relapse or not trying desperately to avoid one.
Many people who relapse say that when they took the first drinks/drugs, it seemed that they were on « automatic pilot », as though they were in a film and couldn’t even seem to watch themselves disinterestedly from outside as they walked in the bar, opened the bottle or reached for the joint/needle.
This is rare, however, and even if the relapse appears to be spontaneous, it is usually preceded by the building up of a hidden relapse mode and a growth of factors, which were not readily identifiable.
www.sossobriety.org /relapse.htm   (3885 words)

  
 Challenges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
We define Relapse Prevention as a strategy to train alcohol and other drug abusers to cope more effectively and to overcome the stressors or triggers in their environments related to alcoholism and drug addiction that may cause relapse to build into chemical dependency.
In addiction treatment (or drug treatment) Relapse may easily be defined as returning to a specific behavior after a period of abstinence (stopping) from that particular behavior, that is, drug abuse.
As the risk of relapse is highest during this period of stabilization, it's most advantageous to be in a controlled environment.
www.challenges-program.com /relapse-prevention.asp   (524 words)

  
 www.patientcenters.com -- Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Center -- Relapse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This article will begin with a definition of relapse, and then will describe who is likely to relapse, how relapse is detected, in what areas of the body relapse may occur, when it's most likely, and why it occurs.
Relapse is the return of disease in a patient who had achieved and maintained a complete remission--defined as the disappearance of all disease--for longer than thirty days after treatment ended.
Cytogenic relapse is relapse detected by one or more tests on the cellular level in the absence of physical symptoms.
www.oreilly.com /medical/lymphoma/news/relapse.html   (2881 words)

  
 Treatment Improvement Exchange - Documents - Technical Assistance Publications (TAPs) - TAP 11 - Chapter 9
Relapse can be understood as not only the actual return to the pattern of substance abuse, but also as the process during which indicators appear prior to the patient's resumption of substance use (Daley, 1987).
Relapse, however, is not an automatic sentence to a lifetime of substance abuse for an individual.
Because relapse is a common occurrence during the process of substance abuse recovery, it is imperative that it be examined carefully.
www.treatment.org /Taps/Tap11/tap11chap9.html   (2220 words)

  
 UB Reporter: What makes them relapse?
Although alcohol relapse rates were similar for both men and women, women appeared less likely to experience relapse to drug abuse, while men appeared more likely to relapse to drug abuse.
In contrast, alcoholic men appear to be protected from relapse by marriage in that it lowers their risk of returning to alcohol use.
Women who relapse to drug abuse may be more sensitive to negative experiences and interpersonal problems in their lives.
www.buffalo.edu /reporter/vol37/vol37n29/articles/RIARelapse.html   (1151 words)

  
 Relapse Prevention
It is based on the combined practical experience of various DRA members and represents some of the tools and techniques they have used as part of their dual recovery.
In chemical dependency, relapse is the act of taking that first drink or drug after being deliberately clean and sober for a time.
Relapse is usually caused by a combinations of factors.
www.draonline.org /relapse.html   (1016 words)

  
 Developing A Relapse Prevention Plan
Relapse prevention planning probably won't work unless the relapser is sober and in control of themselves.
The relapser is asked to take each of the five warning signs and tell a story about a time when they experienced that warning sign in the past while sober.
Relapsers need to take inventory work seriously because most warning signs are deeply entrenched habits that are hard to change and tend to automatically come back whenever certain problems or stresses occur.
tgorski.com /gorski_articles/developing_a_relapse_prevention_plan.htm   (3081 words)

  
 Relapse
Relapse is defined as returning to a specific behavior after a period of abstinence (stopping) that particular behavior.
Relapse does not come on suddenly and without warning, it is a process over time.
Relapse cannot be avoided by shear willpower or self-discipline.
johnrecover.faithweb.com /relapse.htm   (366 words)

  
 S a f e t y, R e s p e c t a n d D i g
In particular it is stressed that they should end a relapse quickly and minimize the damage it causes (this is sometimes called relapse management; Curry and McBride, 1994), and that they should consider the slip as an unfortunate but isolated incident rather than an indication that they are incapable of recovering.
Marlatt's relapse prevention model was developed in the late 1970s, and the term relapse prevention became well known during the 1980s as an empirically-based, cognitive social learning theory explanation of the relapse process, with associated treatment implications.
Marlatt's relapse prevention model places particular emphasis on ways of minimizing the damage associated with relapses, learning from relapses so as to be better able to avoid relapse in the future, and cognitively processing relapses so as to not unduly diminish one's motivation to succeed.
www.robertchapman.net /essays/relapse1.htm   (2666 words)

  
 Relapse
Instead we were dealt a severe blow when Dr. Twist called and said the cytospin slide from the spinal showed leukemic cells, meaning a relapse in the central nervous system (CNS).
When this cell reproduces itself to the point of relapse, with it's, and all it's offspring's, resistance to chemo, it can be very difficult to get back into remission.
I believe, not counting his LP on the Wednesday before relapse, it took 8 triple ITs to clear the fluid, at which point he gets two more.
www.sideoff.com /spencer/relapse.html   (877 words)

  
 RELAPSE
The goal of the SEA's program, however, is to help you so that the incidences of relapse become fewer, that a greater time span occurs between each relapse, and that each relapse lessens in intensity over time.
Third, once you have escaped the relapsed thoughts, emotions, or actions, then you need to look carefully at the relapse event to learn what were the variables which led to it.
Fifth, once you have developed plans and actions to alter your recovery process, you need to protect yourself from a repeat relapse by developing new self-affirmations and self-scripts which recognize that it is human to fall back into old habits of thoughts, emotions, and actions.
www.coping.org /selfesteem/tools/relapse.htm   (808 words)

  
 Relapse Prevention Counseling and Drug Rehabilitation
The Support Systems Homes drug and alcohol relapse prevention counseling program is intended for individuals who have had established periods of sobriety and have a history of relapse, and are experiencing or displaying current anxiety or ideation about returning to old, toxic behaviors.
It is expected that all participants will be engaged with some form of support network and actively working to confront their issues while participating in the relapse prevention program.
The Relapse Prevention Group follows a 12-week cycle designed to confront issues in recovery that could put the individual at risk for relapse.
www.recoverythroughsupport.com /specialprograms/relapse-prevention.html   (297 words)

  
 Relapse Prevention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Preventing or minimizing these periods of heightened symptom, or relapses, is a critical aspect of recovery from the illness.
A key aspect of successful relapse prevention is acting quickly and thoughtfully at the first sign of a symptom flare-up.
Often, if warning signs are recognized early, only a small action may be required–perhaps just talking with the patient to remind him or her to take his/her medication as prescribed, or seeing if there is a way to help the patient reduce stress.
www.npi.ucla.edu /ssg/relapse.htm   (583 words)

  
 HelpHorizons.com - Library: Relapse Prevention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Some people relapse several times before new behavior becomes a regular part of their lives.
The relapse process occurs in a series of steps and in the direction of a return to addictive or other self-destructive behavior.
Our decision to cope with cravings is aided by knowing: (1) there is a difference between a lapse and a relapse; and (2) continued coping with the craving while maintaining the new behavior will eventually reduce the craving.
www.helphorizons.com /library/search_details.htm?id=77   (848 words)

  
 NIDA NOTES - Men and Women in Drug Abuse Treatment Relapse at Different Rates and for Different Reasons
The scientists found that the women in their sample were less likely than the men to relapse: only 22 percent of the women compared to 32 percent of the men relapsed to drug use in the 6 months between interviews.
The investigators found that, although the women were more likely than the men to maintain a social network, they were no more likely than men to receive emotional support for their problems and encouragement to stop using drugs.
What did appear to explain the difference in relapse was the fact that the women were more likely to engage in treatment, particularly group counseling, says Dr. Fiorentine.
www.drugabuse.gov /NIDA_Notes/NNVol13N4/Relapse.html   (1531 words)

  
 The Relapse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Love's Last Shift, which was to provide the inspiration for Vanbrugh's Relapse, is a celebration of the power of a good woman, Amanda, to reform a rakish husband, Loveless, with patience and a bed-trick.
It is a classic fortune-hunter or trickster story in which a clever and penniless younger brother tricks his elder brother Lord Foppington out of his intended bride and her large dowry.
There is no moral sentiment or poetic justice in the subplot of The Relapse, where the trickster hero is allowed to keep both the girl, her dowry, and his own bad character to the end.
the-relapse.borgfind.com   (564 words)

  
 Preventing Depression Relapse - Depression symptoms, causes, and treatments including clinical and manic depression.
But this is more likely to happen in patients treated with antidepressants than in those who receive a form of psychotherapy called cognitive-behavioral therapy, or CBT.
One reason for relapse is that a person may still have thought patterns that can trigger a downward spiral of depressive thinking, suggest University of Toronto researcher Zindel V. Segal, PhD, and colleagues.
This "cognitive reactivity" was a stronger predictor of depression relapse than the strongest previously known predictor (the number of prior relapses).
www.medicinenet.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=62802   (410 words)

  
 Relapse Prevention Plan
The Relapse Prevention Plan is something that may be helpful to you in preventing a relapse.
List each situation that may cause you to relapse on the left and on the right, list a healthier way of dealing/coping with it.
I hope that this relapse prevention plan will be a helpful tool for you in your recovery process.
www.mirror-mirror.org /relplan.htm   (1053 words)

  
 Relapse and the Brain
Relapse prevention is finding new appropriate ways to respond to painful situations.
The FASTER Scale is a neurochemical model of relapse that identifies specific high risk behaviors for each stage of the relapse process.
To interrupt the descent into relapse, addicts must take responsibility for where they are on the scale by becoming aware of their behavior and make good choices to stop the downward spiral.
www.nacronline.com /dox/library/sub_relapse.shtml   (1727 words)

  
 Relapse_Recovery_Grid
The goal is reached when they can live a meaningful and comfortable life without the need for alcohol or other drugs.
Describe the common recovery tasks of each stage, and the relapse warning signs associated with each stage.
This includes the book, "The Relapse Recovery Grid" by Terence T. Gorski and all necessary material to complete the course.
www.cenaps.com /Homestudy/Relapse_Recovery_Grid.htm   (209 words)

  
 Preventing Depression Relapse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Relapse is a risk for people who have recovered from major depression.
A tip-off to whether formerly depressed people have these risky thought patterns is how mild sadness affects their thinking.
Those whose thinking became most dysfunctional during this exercise were also most likely to relapse over the next 18 months.
www.webmd.com /content/article/124/115702.htm   (360 words)

  
 THE RELAPSE PREVENTION INCREASES THE EFFICACY OF THE SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMMES? AN EMPIRICAL STUDY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The aim of this study is to know the power of the relapse prevention (problem solving procedure) to the increase of efficacy of a behavioural smoking cessation programme at short and long-term, one year of follow-up.
The second group (n = 36), the relapse prevention group, is composed of the above programme and an additional component of relapse prevention with a problem solving procedure.
The above results shown in the present study the relapse prevention, with a problem solving procedure, does not increase the efficacy of a standard behavioural smoking cessation programme.
www.globalink.org /tobacco/docs/eu-docs/helsinki/SmokeFree-229.html   (309 words)

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