Illness Management and Recovery / IMR-A08-5
Relapse Prevention Collaboration — Review journal
Review an attempt at relapse prevention collaboration and choose what to keep, change, or leave aside.
10 minutes · Journal prompts · 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.
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
Draft a collaborative early-warning plan with routine, increased-support, and urgent-assessment steps using existing care guidance.
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
What should each support person do, with your permission? 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:
- What should each support person do, with your permission? 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.