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Therapists Overview

TAKING DAILY INVENTORY

GOALS OF THE EXERCISE

1. Develop a program of recovery that is free of addiction and antisocial

behavior.

2. Take responsibility for ones own behavior.

3. Identify patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior that pose a threat to

sobriety and develop a plan of action for improvement.4. Clarify the importance of taking inventory as part of preventing relapse.

5. Provide a method for taking inventory to continue using in the future.

ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS FOR WHICH THIS EXERCISE MAY BEUSEFUL

Relapse Proneness

Substance Abuse/Dependence

Treatment Resistance

SUGGESTIONS FOR PROCESSING THIS EXERCISE WITH THECLIENT

The Taking Daily Inventory activity is designed for clients who are not inclined

to

introspection and need prompting to self-monitor for addictive patterns of

thought, emotions, and behaviors. It highlights any drift toward addictive

patterns before actual relapse occurs, and is a good sequel to Early Warning

Signs of Relapse. Follow-up can include reporting to the therapist or treatment

group trends that were noted by the

client in daily inventories, feedback from the therapist or group aboutdiscrepancies

between what the client reports and what they observe, and journaling

assignments on any consistent challenges identified.

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EXERCISE III.B

TAKING DAILY INVENTORY

Your daily emotions, attitudes, and actions move you either further into

recovery or back toward addictive behavior. Checking your progress frequently

is an important part of staying sober.

1. Using a scale in which 1 = low and 5 = high, score yourself daily on these

items:

Moving Further into Recovery: Moving toward Relapse:

Honest with self Dishonest

Honest with others Resentful

Living for today Depressed

Hopeful Self-pitying

Active Critical of self/others

Prompt Procrastinating

Relaxed Impatient

Responsible Angry

Confident Indifferent

Realistic Guilty

Reasonable Anxious

Forgiving Ashamed

Trusting of others Fearful

Content with self Withdrawn

Helpful to others Demanding

2. How did you improve today?

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3. What roadblock(s) to recovery/progress can you identify today?

4. What, if anything, do you wish you had done differently today?

5. On a scale of 1 to 5, what is your level of commitment to recovery today?

6. What did you learn about yourself today that you can use to assist

continued prog-ress?

7. If you began working on any new change today, what was that change?

8. Please look at your Moving toward Relapse scores from question 1 and

describe one concrete strategy to decrease your risk of relapse and increase

your chances of staying in recovery.

Be sure to bring this handout back to your next session with your therapist,

and be prepared to talk about your thoughts and feelings about the exercise.