Illness Management and Recovery / IMR-A17-2
Navigating Services — Practice worksheet
Create a map of providers, peer services, scheduling contacts, and questions about eligibility or cost.
15 minutes · Worksheet · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Casey is unsure which service handles a referral.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Knowing roles and routes can reduce the burden of seeking help.
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
Create a map of providers, peer services, scheduling contacts, and questions about eligibility or cost.
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
Who can clarify the next step without making you tell the whole story again? 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:
- Who can clarify the next step without making you tell the whole story again?
- 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.