Preventing Relapse by Dr. John C. Norcross

Slipping back from a recovered or improved state is never easy. This growth path will help you understand and manage relapse through research-backed life-skills and activities.

This Growth Path is adapted, with special permission of Simon & Schuster, from a chapter in Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions by Dr. John C. Norcross. Dr. Norcross has studied how people make transformative, permanent changes in their lives for over 30 years.

He is a Distinguished Professor & Chair of Psychology at the University of Scranton, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University, and a board-certified clinical psychologist with over 400 publications, author of 22 books, and workshops in 30 countries.

In addition, Dr. Norcross is past-president of the American Psychological Association (APA) Division of Psychotherapy and the Division of Clinical Psychology as well as the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration.