Exercise: Addressing Stress in Relapse Prevention for Substance Use Disorders

MET is a client-centered, directive method of enhancing intrinsic motivation for change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. In this intervention MET will focus on exercise.

Contingency management is a behavioral treatment that utilizes extrinsic motivation by offering individuals tangible rewards such as prizes for completion of specific target behaviors. The target behavior in this study is exercise.

Aftercare includes the following topics: substance use, high-risk situations, coping and life skills training, focus groups for depression and anxiety, and AIDS education.