Role of motivational enhancement therapy, relapse prevention therapy and self-efficacy treating substance addiction: A case study

Abstract

Generally, a substance use issue arises when an individual suffers from any difficulty in the areas like physical, psychological, occupational, familial, financial, intellectual, interpersonal, or even spiritual affiliated with consuming different substances. The issues can be resulted from very low to severe form. Before developing drug dependency, persons might intake casually, but those patterns of use have the potentiality to develop a full-blown dependency to substances to a large extent. Drug dependency keeps the potentiality not to only serve as a remarkable harmful lifestyle but also injurious to general health, mental health, determining both personal and social development. A large number of research has shown that self-efficacy also plays a significant role in reducing the level of addiction which lacks among the abusers. Research evidenced that both motivational enhancement therapy and relapse prevention therapy are most commonly used psychological therapies that focused in increasing the level of self-efficacy, motivation, and relapse prevention. The current study examined increasing the level of Self-efficacy and to maintain a sobriety using the techniques of motivational enhancement therapy and relapse prevention therapy in a patient with multiple substances dependency.