Habilidades de enfrentamento antecipatório para abstinência de substâncias: construção de um novo instrumento de medida Anticipatory Coping Skills for Substance Abstinence: Construction of a New Measuring Scale Habilidades de enfrentamiento anticipado para abstinencia de sustancias: construcción de un nuevo instrumento de medida

Anticipatory coping skills are important for the maintenance of abstinence from alcohol and other drugs. Nevertheless, there are no instruments available to evaluate them in the Brazilian context. This paper describes the first developments of an instrument that permits the assessment of this repertoire, which involved several steps. Initially, based on the literature, on similar instruments