Affirming Reality

Affirming Reality

Special Preview #13: DAP 5, Part One

Learn how to reintegrate your child into life with peers after extraction, detoxification, and desistance

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Nikki M. Johnson, MD, DNBPAS and Gabrielle Clark
Mar 18, 2026
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Chapter Ten of the Affirming Reality book is DAP 5: Recovery and Maintenance. In this chapter, we provide guidance on reintegrating your child into society. It is essential that this be done in a manner that encourages continued acceptance of reality while fostering an environment of ongoing growth and maturity toward adulthood.

DAP 5 is divided into three remaining steps. This special preview draft details the first step, reintegration.

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