Illness Management and Recovery / IMR-A17-5
Navigating Services — Review journal
Review an attempt at navigating services and choose what to keep, change, or leave aside.
10 minutes · Journal prompts · 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.
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
Create a map of providers, peer services, scheduling contacts, and questions about eligibility or cost.
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
Who can clarify the next step without making you tell the whole story again? 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:
- Who can clarify the next step without making you tell the whole story again? 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.