Prevenção de recaída no contexto da dependência química: um estudo dos potenciais cognitivos aplicados

Abstract

This study through literature review aimed to broaden the scope of knowledge on the issue of relapse prevention, research and understand the importance of cognitive potential in preventing relapse, hoping to qualify methods of professional practice in the clinical treatment of addiction. To achieve this goal in the first moment he was appointed the national scene for the substance abuse services for treatment. He was outlining the concept of addiction and its diagnostic guidelines classified by the World Health Based on Cognitive Theory and Cognitive Psychology, presents the cognitive model of addictive behaviors and the implications in cognition deficit caused by the continued use of substances. Raises questions regarding the maintenance of abstinence from addictive behavior, and presents the approach to relapse prevention developed by the authors Marlatt & Gordon (1993) and Marlatt & Donovan (2009). The potential cognitive self-efficacy, decision making, problem solving, dissonance / consonance cognitive and social skills were ending with the detailed understanding of the cognitive potential shown positive influence in the process of relapse prevention. It was observed that the cognitions have an important role in the process of addiction, whether as protective factors for the development of the disorder or for the avoidance of relapses after the installation of the disorder. Potential cognitive highlighted here were some of the set of cognitions available to individuals to deal with the difficulties of everyday life, many of them inherent in the human.