From Random Recovery to Strategic Recovery
Assess the Addiction, Focusing On Recovery Strategy
- Gain awareness of the severity of the addiction.
- Identify the degree of dependency.
- Identify the extent of powerlessness.
- Identify the history and patterns of the addiction
- Assess change desire and attempts.
- Discover whether desire for change is internal/moral or external/pragmatic.
- Identify previous change attempts, and highlight successes and solutions.
- Assess personal and relationship injuries.
- Identify and highlight personal and relationship strengths.
- Put the pieces together.
- Plan for desire in recovery.
- Plan for individual will and work in recovery.
- Plan for relationships in recovery.
- Plan for grace in recovery.