A Case Study Of Rational Emotive Therapy In Psychological Rehabilitation Of Drug Addicts In Community

The global drug problem is becoming more and more serious,which not only brings bad effects on the physical and mental health of drug addicts,but also brings huge losses to the national economy.Community detoxification is the last important hub for drug addicts to return to society.In the process of social intervention,it emphasizes rescue and education,helps drug addicts to achieve physical detoxification and psychological rehabilitation,and promotes them to return to society smoothly.This is an important part of maintaining social stability and realizing the modernization of social governance,and it is also an important topic in the academic and practical circles.The community drug addicts have completed the physical detoxification when they leave the compulsory detoxification center,and their difficulties are rooted in psychological problems.Long term drug use not only makes the community drug addicts have a strong dependence psychology,but also has a serious negative impact on their cognition,emotion and personality,which makes them hold a strong irrational belief.Under the influence of irrational beliefs,community drug addicts are easy to choose relapse to escape from life difficulties,so it is particularly important to help them correct irrational beliefs and achieve psychological rehabilitation.Through literature research,the author found that most scholars at home and abroad focused on the psychological,physiological and social aspects of community drug addicts,emphasized the physiological detoxification and re socialization of community drug addicts,and ignored the potential of individual rational beliefs.Therefore,this paper uses rational emotive therapy to deeply analyze the psychological structure of community drug addicts,and uses professional methods to correct the irrational beliefs of community drug addicts from three aspects of cognition,emotion and behavior,so as to achieve psychological detoxification faster and reduce the relapse rate of community drug addicts.At the same time,this paper uses case study method for field research,aiming to explore the applicability of rational emotive therapy intervention in the psychological rehabilitation of community drug addicts,from point to area,to provide reference for the case service of psychological rehabilitation of community drug addicts.This method can also follow up the change of the case owner and grasp the whole process of the case development.In addition,in the process of carrying out the case,social workers combined with the semi-structured interview method to analyze the causes of the case owner’s "heart addiction",excavate the case owner’s irrational beliefs and correct them in time.Let the community drug addicts gradually get rid of the "heart addiction",change the irrational thinking,reconstruct the rational way of life.At present,the community drug addicts have cognitive bias,serious negative emotions,and their personality has been greatly affected by long-term drug use.In this paper,rational emotive therapy is used to conduct a case study of Zhu,a community drug addict in X community of Guangzhou city.The purpose is to help Zhu achieve psychological detoxification faster and better integrate into the society.In the early stage of service,social workers have established a good professional relationship with the client.In the initial assessment,social workers found that there were some irrational beliefs,such as catastrophic beliefs,over generalization and absolute requirements.In the middle of service,ABCDE model is used as the framework,combined with cognitive therapy,emotional therapy and behavioral therapy,to teach the clients to identify unhealthy emotions and to realize self correction of irrational beliefs.In the later stage of service,the client and social workers jointly evaluate the service process and effectiveness of the case.Through case analysis,it is confirmed that rational emotive therapy can help community drug addicts achieve psychological detoxification faster,successfully reshape rational thinking belief,reconstruct rational lifestyle,improve the ability to bear setbacks,develop positive social network,and greatly reduce the possibility of relapse of community drug addicts.Therefore,the application of rational emotive therapy in the psychological rehabilitation service of community drug addicts is worthy of reference and promotion.