Working with the maintaining client

What can you do?

If your client is in the Maintenance stage, they are actively working on their changed behaviours. At this stage, it is important that you support your client to maintain the changes they have made:

• Encourage and foster personal development
• Help your client to avoid feeling discouraged
• Help your client to continue contemplating change, renewing their determination and resuming action
• Explore lifestyle issues not directly related to gambling, such as parenting, budgeting, relationships, education and employment
• Help your client to build self protective behaviours
• Reinforce and encourage “what works” for your client
• Help your client to identify possible triggers for lapse

What can Gambler’s Help do?

During the Maintenance stage, Gambler's Help can offer your client a range of services including:

• Peer connection program
• Gambler’s Help Line

Gamblers Help can also provide you with the following services:

• Specialist Portfolio Services
• Provider education

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