Substance use recovery / SUR-A04-2
Trigger Context Detective — Practice worksheet
Map an ordinary high-risk situation through setting, thoughts, feelings, body cues, and available choices.
15 minutes · Worksheet · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Jordan notices stronger urges after a stressful shift and an empty evening.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. A cue is part of a wider sequence rather than proof that use is inevitable.
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
Map an ordinary high-risk situation through setting, thoughts, feelings, body cues, and available choices.
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
Where could support enter before the urge becomes harder to manage? 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:
- Where could support enter before the urge becomes harder to manage?
- An optional next step, support, adaptation, or reason to stop:
Conceptual background
Substance Use Disorders — National Institutes of Health
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.