Adopting the Practice of Mindfulness to Ex-substance Abusers for Relapse Prevention

摘要：

　　Most treatment models for substance abuse focuses on managing the triggers driven by negative emotions and cravings, however the relapse rate is still higher.Hence, we adopted mindfulness for ex-substance abusers (users) from relapse prevention.The effectiveness was very positive to reduce substance craving.Mindfulness encourages awareness and acceptance of thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations as they arise moment by moment.In facing substance craving, individuals neither clinging to positive nor avoiding from negative states.Our workers practiced mindfulness with users such as mindful sitting, breathing, yoga and etc.to help them observe how their cravings arose and disappeared, and how they could manage the emotional or physical states that might provoke them to relapse.Many users feedback that they understood more the underlying needs behind cravings and could stay with the unpleasant experience mindfully.They are more capable of handling negative emotions and difficulties that triggered to relapse.

关键词： Craving Ex-substance abusers Mindfulness relapse prevention

作者: Cheng Ting-Ting

作者单位: Hong Kong Polytechnic University

会议类型: 国内会议

会议名称: 2015全国药物滥用防治研讨会暨第九届内地与港澳地区药物滥用防治研讨会

会议地点: 成都

会议语种:英文

页码: 420-428

在线出版日期: 2015-10-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）