Illness Management and Recovery / IMR-A08-1
Relapse Prevention Collaboration — Concept brief
Understand the idea behind relapse prevention collaboration and consider whether it fits your context.
8 minutes · Handout · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Casey wants clear agreement about whom to contact if familiar warning signs return.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. An illness-management plan can specify support before difficulties escalate.
The idea
An illness-management plan can specify support before difficulties escalate.
An ordinary example
Casey wants clear agreement about whom to contact if familiar warning signs return.
What this can look like
Draft a collaborative early-warning plan with routine, increased-support, and urgent-assessment steps using existing care guidance.
Check the fit
What should each support person do, with your permission? You may disagree with the framing, use fiction, or decide that this approach is not useful today.
A useful distinction
A personal recovery goal and a symptom-management strategy serve related but different purposes; the person defines what a meaningful life includes.
Prompts for this resource
- What part of this idea makes sense to me?
- What should each support person do, with your permission?
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.