Maintaining Change

A Personal Relapse Prevention Manual

Hilary Eldridge

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 1997
• Print ISBN: 9780761911067
• eBook ISBN: 9781452247083
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

Clearly written, A Personal Manual for Maintaining Change presents a cognitive-behavioral approach to relapse prevention developed by Hilary Eldridge and pilot tested in community-based secure hospital and prison sex offender programs. Step-by-step, the system focuses on the notion of control and taking responsibility for oneÆs actions rather than a "cure." It requires participants to become active in the change process toward the ultimate goal of being able to self-manage. Manual sections address the thinking, feeling, and behavior patterns of the perpetrator in relation to cycles of offending, cognitive distortions, cognitive and affective empathy, sexuality, social relationships, and self. It is assumed that this program will be managed by a professionally qualified and experienced therapist who has good supervision, support, and the opportunity to evaluate client progress. A Personal Manual for Maintaining Change may be used to link individuals with group work, as well as prisons with community-based programs. It is well integrated with existing programs and user-friendly for all who work in a professional capacity with adult male sex offenders. This is a professional book for client-oriented self-management or therapy to be supervised by social workers, mental health agencies, prison staff, hospital staff, probation officers, psychologists, and other health care professionals. It also makes an excellent training resource or textbook for therapists, counselors, social workers, nurses, and other mental health professionals.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Handout: Introduction to the Manual
• Phase 1 - Material
• Handout: Introduction to Phase 1
• Handout: Learning Control
• Exercise: Is Offending Really So Great?
• Exercise: Gains and Losses of Reoffending for You
• Handout and Exercise: Does it "Just Happen"?
• Handout: Cycles of Behavior
• Handout: Sex Offending Cycles
• Exercise: Your Feelings, Thoughts, and Behaviors Prior to Offending
• Exercise: Reminder Card: Your Feelings, Thoughts, and Behaviors Prior to Offending
• Exercise: Spot Your Own Pro-Offending Thinking Errors
• Exercise: Thinking Errors Prior to Offending
• Exercise: Thinking Errors in Fantasy about Sexual Abuse
• Exercise: Reminder Card: Your Pro-Offending Thinking Errors
• Handout: Knowing Your Own Sex Offending Cycle
• Exercise: Knowing Your Own Sex Offending Cycle
• Handout: Making "Breaking the Cycle" Self-Awareness Tapes for Relapse Prevention
• Handout: Personal Monitoring and Support Networks
• Exercise: My Support Network
• Phase 2 - Material
• Handout: Introduction to Phase 2
• Section A: Your Cycle and Your Routes to Relapse
• Exercise: Alert List for Cycle
• Handout and Exercise: Lapse and Relapse
• Exercise: Recognizing Lapses
• Exercise: Coping with Lapse
• Handout: Routes to Relapse
• Exercise: Personal Routes to Relapse
• Exercise: Planning to Avoid Lapse
• Handout: Self-Monitoring and Self-Awareness
• Exercise: Urge to Lapse Monitoring Sheet
• Exercise: Lapse Monitoring Sheet
• Exercise: Personal Contracts to Deal with Lapse
• Section B: Preventing and Dealing with Risky Moods
• Handout: The Risky Mood Relapse Process: At-a-Glance Guide
• Handout: Effective Coping Strategies for Dealing with the Risky Mood Relapse Process
• Exercise: Personal Coping Strategies for Dealing with the Risky Mood Relapse Process
• Handout: Changing Your Lifestyle
• Exercise: What I Want from My Offense-Free Lifestyle
• Exercise: Something New to D o
• Exercise: Keeping a Diary
• Handout and Exercise: Stress Reduction Techniques
• Handout: Changing Your Thoughts and Feelings
• Exercise: Thoughts and Feelings Diary
• Exercise: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
• Exercise: Challenging Automatic Negative Thoughts
• Exercise: Finding the Source of Your Thinking
• Exercise: Predictions versus Outcomes
• Exercise: Feeling Better by Seeing Yourself Succeeding
• Handout: Reading List for Feeling Good
• Section C: Your Personal Relapse Prevention Collection: Keeping out/Breaking out of Your Cycle
• Exercise: Relapse Prevention Plan
• Exercise: Reminder Card: Maintaining an Offense-Free Lifestyle
• Exercise: How to Keep out of Your Cycle
• Exercise: On the Edge of the Cycle: Reminder Cue Cards
• Exercise: How to Break out of Your Cycle
• Exercise: Breaking out of the Cycle: Reminder Cue Cards
• Exercise: Last Ditch
• Exercise: Last Ditch: Reminder Cue Cards
• Handout and Exercise: Building up Your Relapse Prevention Collection
• Exercise: Reminder Card: Putting it All Together
• Exercise: Personal Monitoring Network: Telephone Numbers
• Exercise: Dealing with Lapse Effectively by Picturing Success
• Exercise: Reminder Card: Dealing with Lapse
• Exercise: Reminder Card: Exercises
• Phase 3 - Material
• Handout: Introduction to Phase 3
• Handout: Continued Use of Phases 1 and 2
• Exercise: Making a Year-Long Plan
• Exercise: Keeping up the Good Work: Preventing the "Slide"
• Handout: Reducing Stress
• Handout: Positive Thinking
• Exercise: Keeping a Contacts Diary
• Handout: Staying in Touch
• Exercise: Updating Your Relapse Prevention Collection