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This study aims to identify a relationship between the personal factor of coping; the interpersonal factors of familial, friend, and societal support and the inclination to relapse. This study involves the participation of 169 former addicts that completed their treatment and rehabilitation period, by utilising four instruments: the Inventory of Drug-Taking Situations, (IDTS) by Annis and Martin (1985); Coping Strategy Inventory (COPE) by Carver and the Social Provisions Scale (SPS) by Russell and Cutrona (1984). The findings shows the inclination to relapse among former addicts are at a high level for the eight dimensions of the inclination to relapse. This means the participants of this study are at a high risk of relapsing into drug use. The descriptive analytical results towards the problem-focused coping, the emotional coping and evasive coping variables show it at a low level. This also applies to the analysis for the family, friend, and societal support variables. In addition, the correlation analysis for the variables of problem-focused, emotional, and evasive coping, selfefficacy, and family, friend, and societal support, shows a negative significant relationship with the inclination to relapse, with the relationship strength between r=-.60 and r=-.80. Therefore this study shows the importance of the personal and interpersonal factors in reducing the problem of inclination to relapse among former addicts that completed their treatment and rehabilitation period. In conclusion, results show the importance of the personal and interpersonal factor in the problem of inclination to relapse.

Relapse prevention (RP) has become the most popular model for structuring the treatment of sex offenders. It is therefore appropriate to examine, in some detail, the model's adequacy and application. The papers brought together in this special issue cover several themes. First, the belief is reflected that, to progress, models and their component elements need to be subjected to critical scrutiny from a theoretical perspective. Second, the empirical support for the application of the model needs to be examined, particularly in comparison to other treatment approaches. Third, the current form of the broad RP model as applied to sex offenders is described and, in concert with other papers in this issue, raises the important issue of motivation for treatment. Finally, we argue that there is much to be gained from viewing sexual offending simply as a problem behavior process rather than as a relapse or offense.