Relapse

Case Study 3 Amanda Anderson Southern New Hampshire University Subject information and presenting problem In case study 3 we are introduced to Katie, a 35 year old woman, wife, mother of 2 children with a professional career. The addiction that Katie faces is prescription medication mostly pain pills but also muscle relaxants. Katie suffers from a substance addiction. She has had this addiction for approximately 3 years. Her addiction began when she was prescribed pain medication for an…

The Stages of Change Model has been applied to a broad range of behaviors that include; weight loss, injury prevention and overcoming addiction (Prochaska et al., 1994). I am most familiar with this model in the substance abuse setting. The Stages of Change Model consists of five stages which are; pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance (Norcross & Prochaska, 2001). Pre-contemplation: Clients that are in this stage within the model are not acknowledging that there…

their relationship. The patient reports she has not use cannabis since last year and her last drink was a month ago. The counselor educated on her on how the use of alcohol and cannabis was a factor and how to move forward and how to start identify relapse triggers and warning signs and symptoms.…

Supervision of Treatment Plan and Success Indicators Supervision for clients with addiction issues in the CBT model involves “regular structure, including agenda setting, identification of goals and the assignment of homework” (McHugh et al., 2010, p. 516). Through identifying antecedents or triggers, clients are aware of situations or environments that would put them at risk (McHugh et al., 2010, p. 516). For counselors, the supervision of treatment, and the success indicators of a client…

"Personality refers to individuals' characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms -- hidden or not -- behind those patterns. This definition means that among their colleagues in other subfields of psychology, those psychologists who study personality have a unique mandate: to explain whole persons." 1- list of top five traits that you think and believe it is important for the medical student to succeed. There is more traits that important…

Bilateral RPLND with nerve sparing if possible is the preferred management as it provide definitive diagnosis, eliminate possibility of growing teratoma syndrome and malignant transformation of teratoma which occur in 3-6% and increase to 12-18% in late relapses [40,41,42]. • RATIONALE FOR SEMINOMA: advanced stage residual masses greater than 3 cm should be evaluated further with FDG-PET andPET positive should undergo RPLND. Observation is justified in patients with a negative FDGPET scan after…

Habilitation: focus is on remaining substance free by establishing a stable lifestyle, developing coping and living skills, increasing supports, and grieving loss of substance use. 3. Maintenance: focus is on stabilizing gains made in treatment, relapse prevention, and termination. - Social worker should be aware of signs and symptoms of use/ and withdrawal symptoms. For example: use of cocaine can be associated with dilated pupils, hyperactivity, restlessness, perspiration, anxiety, and…

Controversies As testicular malignancy is a disease of young population with good long term prognosis and multidisciplinary treatment is evolving to reduce morbidity, certain areas of controversies have evolved. • Postchemotherapy Residual Disease: postchemotherapy retroperitoneal masses are found to be teratoma or viable GCT in 45% of CT radiographic masses of 11-20 mm and 28% of the 0-10 mm [44]. Ehrlich found 15-year recurrence-free survival rates of 95% and 73% for good risk and…

resolve tx issues. The pt. has had her take-home privileges reinstated. Pt. was provided with feedback regarding her engagement in her tx plans and she started to reach this writer and other individual with the same recovery issues to learn and improve relapse prevention skills. Pt. has done extremely well in maintaining her abstinence from all illicit drugs as evidenced by last quarter negative UDS. Pt. was taught about the effects of drug abuse on the brain, how to…

In comparison, the two retainers have a similar purpose, they are use in the prevention of orthodontic relapses or secondary crowding of mandibular incisors.2 The main differences of both of the retainers is based off of whether they are bonded to teeth or can detach from them. Fixed retainers come with an advantage of being compliance free for the patient…