Recovery Resilience Program Facilitator's Guide: An I-System Model Application for Addiction Recovery and Relapse Prevention

A manual for those working with addicted populations (from lay counsellors to psychiatrists) for delivering the evidence-based Recovery Resilience Program (RRP). RRP is a person-centered, strength and resiliency-based relapse prevention and recovery-oriented intervention that works in synergy with other models, especially 12-Step programs. Presenting practices that enhance 'recovery resilience' – an individual's capacity to effectively apply coping and self-regulation skills in dealing with cravings, triggers, stress, and high-risk situations without reverting to substance use. The program helps individuals to enhance and use their recovery capital at any stage of recovery, and ultimately reach recovery and life goals. It effortlessly integrates with other evidence-based relapse programs, from the original cognitive-behavioral approaches to the newer mindfulness-based and metacognitive approaches. Written by clinicians who have worked with addicts and their families for many decades, the program is easy-to-implement and very little preparation is necessary with handouts and PowerPoints included in each session.

Guy du Plessis is a researcher and instructor at the I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies, Utah State University, and adjunct professor at the Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy, Loyola University Chicago. He studied psychology at the University of South Africa and philosophy at the University of Cape Town and certified in psychodynamic psychotherapy. He has worked for over 25 years as an addiction treatment provider and academic researcher. He is the author and co-author of 7 books, two of which are published by Cambridge University Press, also published in several journals and edited volumes, including 'International Journal of Applied Philosophy' and 'Addiction,' his research aims at applying various philosophical perspectives to addiction studies, with the aim of integrating life-affirming philosophical outlooks into existing recovery-oriented interventions, and highlighting life-negating views that are obstructions to recovery and the good life.

Derrik R. Tollefson is the Mind-Body Bridging Professor of Social Work and director of the I-System Institute at Utah State University. He holds a Ph.D. in social work from the University of Utah and is a licensed clinical social worker in Utah.

Bob Weathers is an addiction educator and certified recovery coach and holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Over the course of his career, he has provided thousands of hours of therapeutic counseling to clients and has committed nearly fifty years to training graduate-level clinicians at several Southern California universities.

Kevin G. Webb is a licensed clinical social worker and an Assistant Professional Practice Professor and Associate Director of the I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies at Utah State University.