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Aftercare Program helps the patient to recover from the habit after detoxification process is over in the hospital

Aftercare Program for Prevention of Relapse



The initial step of the treatment of the drug or alcohol addict is detoxification in which toxins from the body of patient is removed by proper medication. This whole process takes place in hospital and after detoxification the patient is released from the hospital and now after that he is treated carefully.
The treatment given to the patient when he released from hospital is defined as aftercare program.

Process

In aftercare program self-control strategies are drawn out by the therapists. Patient can learn these strategies from therapists or by self-control books.
There are many varieties of self-control strategies like behavioral self-control training, self-control management, cognitive self regulation. Self control means to change the behavior on willpower. On the other hand self management is to involve in the awareness of beneficial behavior and altering the distorting behavior.

It depends on the withdrawal symptoms that what kinds of strategies are used in aftercare program. Moreover it depends on the kind of addiction. If symptoms are severe than strategies and some therapies are undertaken to cure the patient.

The main goal of aftercare program is to remove behavioral deficiencies. Behavioral deficiencies means the patient is not able to engage in positive thoughts. He keeps on pondering about the negative thoughts, all this results in negative future. The aftercare programs mainly deals with outpatient treatment programs in which different therapies are used to heal the patient like individual or group therapy, family therapy etc.

Risks and Precautions

Most dangerous risk in the aftercare program is relapse. This means patient get back to the habit of drinking or smoking again. We can take precautions by keeping an eye on him, checking the warning signals like aggression, nervousness, guilt, denial, depression, fatigue etc. All these clues increase the urge and craving for the habit. So therapist has to stick to better aftercare program.

Results

After the medication and hospitalization the patient became physically healthy but for mental health he requires aftercare program. And this aftercare program definitely helps a patient to heal mentally and physically.