Illness Management and Recovery / IMR-A08-2
Relapse Prevention Collaboration — Practice worksheet
Draft a collaborative early-warning plan with routine, increased-support, and urgent-assessment steps using existing care guidance.
15 minutes · Worksheet · 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.
1. Choose a workable example
Use the fictional example below or an ordinary situation of your choosing. Keep identifying details out of shared copies.
2. Try the practice
Draft a collaborative early-warning plan with routine, increased-support, and urgent-assessment steps using existing care guidance.
3. Compare possibilities
Generate at least two interpretations or options. Mark what you know, what you are guessing, and what remains outside your control.
4. Decide together
What should each support person do, with your permission? Choose one small action, a support request, or no action. Review the fit with your clinician when relevant.
Prompts for this resource
- My chosen or fictional situation, and what I know about it:
- My response to the practice task above:
- What should each support person do, with your permission?
- An optional next step, support, adaptation, or reason to stop:
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.