Substance use recovery / SUR-A12-2
Support Person Preferences — Practice worksheet
Create a menu of wanted support, unwanted responses, and ways to check consent.
15 minutes · Worksheet · 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.
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 menu of wanted support, unwanted responses, and ways to check consent.
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
How will your support person know what helps? 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:
- How will your support person know what helps?
- 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.