Substance use recovery / SUR-A18-2
Co-occurring Concerns Bridge — Practice worksheet
Prepare a shared-care summary of concerns, goals, current supports, and questions without assigning a diagnosis.
15 minutes · Worksheet · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Jordan notices that low mood and urges sometimes rise together.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Mental health and substance-use concerns can be discussed together.
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
Prepare a shared-care summary of concerns, goals, current supports, and questions without assigning a diagnosis.
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
What would you like your providers to understand about the connection? 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:
- What would you like your providers to understand about the connection?
- 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.