Used is a half-day groupwork input aimed at men or women in prison settings who are already engaged in work on their own drug or alcohol use and have some motivation to change.
It includes experiential exercises to explore triggers to relapse, links between substance misuse and offending and motivation to change and is centred round our iconic ‘fragment masks’.
Participants are involved in a live, interactive demonstration of these masks and discussion around how they function as potential justifications for ‘using’ and therefore barriers to change. They are then asked to identify the masks which they may need to be aware of in their on-going recovery and encouraged to explore useful alternative strategies.
