Substance use recovery / SUR-A12-1
Support Person Preferences — Concept brief
Understand the idea behind support person preferences and consider whether it fits your context.
8 minutes · Handout · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Jordan wants a check-in call but not repeated questioning.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Support is more useful when its form and limits are agreed.
The idea
Support is more useful when its form and limits are agreed.
An ordinary example
Jordan wants a check-in call but not repeated questioning.
What this can look like
Create a menu of wanted support, unwanted responses, and ways to check consent.
Check the fit
How will your support person know what helps? You may disagree with the framing, use fiction, or decide that this approach is not useful today.
A useful distinction
A return to use is information for reassessing care and support, not a verdict on personal worth.
Prompts for this resource
- What part of this idea makes sense to me?
- How will your support person know what helps?
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.