This guide helps a professional choose one recovery activity and plan its follow-up. It does not establish a level of care, diagnose a disorder, or provide withdrawal or overdose management.
How to use this page
Before using a worksheet, clarify the person’s immediate priorities and whether planning is appropriate today. The estimated time refers to preparation, not a complete clinical encounter.
Begin with the person’s language
Ask what they want to change and what support has felt helpful or harmful. Avoid imposing abstinence, a recovery identity, a spiritual framework, or a specific peer group through this pack. Discuss indicated care options within your role and respect informed choices.
Check conditions for participation
Assess urgent concerns through established clinical procedures. Offer a brief or verbal version, and avoid detailed recall of cues if that increases distress or urges. Consider transport, housing, food, disability, childcare, language, cost, and digital privacy alongside individual strategies.
Make the follow-up concrete
Help verify one support route, including hours and eligibility. Clarify who will do what and when. At review, explore what the attempt taught both of you. A missed task may reveal a poor fit or an access barrier. Maintain a separate, appropriate plan for clinical monitoring and urgent needs.
Reflection prompts
Use these questions in conversation, on paper, or in the downloaded PDF. You may adapt or skip a prompt.
One access barrier, adaptation, or follow-up responsibility to address through approved care processes
Facilitator notes and adaptation
Keep real clinical information in approved records. These pages are original educational aids with conceptual references, not validated relapse-prediction or readiness tools.
Sources behind the concepts
These sources inform the concepts in this original resource. They do not validate or endorse this specific page.