Illness Management and Recovery / IMR-A01-5
Personal Recovery Vision — Review journal
Review an attempt at personal recovery vision and choose what to keep, change, or leave aside.
10 minutes · Journal prompts · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Casey wants to return to a community art group.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. IMR work connects illness-management skills with personally chosen life goals.
Before looking back
Choose one ordinary attempt or decide to review the fictional example instead. This journal has no scores, required disclosure, or expectation of progress.
Revisit the practice
Describe a meaningful role or activity and one small change that could support participation.
Notice context and impact
Record what actually happened, including an unhelpful or neutral outcome. Note resources, power differences, accessibility, and changed conditions rather than attributing everything to personal effort.
Choose a revision
How could managing current difficulties support this goal? Keep the approach, change one part, ask for support, or set it aside. A mismatch is useful information.
Prompts for this resource
- What I tried, or what happened in the fictional example:
- What I noticed before, during, and after; what remains uncertain:
- What helped, did not help, or was outside my control:
- How could managing current difficulties support this goal? My optional adjustment or support request:
Conceptual background
Illness Management and Recovery Evidence-Based Practices KIT — SAMHSA
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.