Which instrument is described as assessing coping skills for relapse prevention?

• A. Coping Response Inventory
• B. SOCRATES
• C. Inventory of Drinking Situations
• D. Situational Confidence Questionnaire

Answer: (A)

Focusing on how people cope with stress and cravings to stay abstinent is the key idea here. The Coping Response Inventory is designed to measure a person’s repertoire of coping strategies across different domains—cognitive, behavioral, and social—when faced with stress or relapse triggers. By evaluating which coping skills are used and how effectively they’re applied, this instrument helps clinicians identify strengths to build on and gaps to target with relapse-prevention interventions, such as enhancing problem-solving, improving emotion regulation, and increasing adaptive social support.

The other tools serve related but distinct purposes. SOCRATES gauges readiness to change, not coping skills. The Inventory of Drinking Situations focuses on high-risk drinking situations and how a person responds to them, which relates to relapse risk but isn’t a broad coping-skills inventory. The Situational Confidence Questionnaire measures confidence to abstain in various situations (self-efficacy), which is important for relapse prevention but doesn’t comprehensively assess coping strategies themselves.