ABSTRACT
Relapse prevention is a term which originated in work with addictions to highlight the fact that relapse often occurs and that a concerted effort to help clients prevent relapse is frequently necessary. A major part of relapse prevention involves helping clients to become aware of a variety of vulnerability factors. In rational emotive behavioural relapse prevention, therapists ask clients to take each problem on their problem list and identify the set of internal and external circumstances in which they may experience a relapse. They help them as specifically as you can to identify relapse-triggering activating events, and the irrational beliefs they hold about such events. In particular, help them to identify any vulnerable feelings which may discourage them from using Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) techniques. When clients think rationally about relapse they can more easily learn from the experience than when they think irrationally about it.
