Help your clients stay on the path of recovery with this relapse prevention worksheet. This worksheet will guide your clients through the process, identifying discrepancies, and motivate them to make lasting change
Mentalyc’s Building Discrepancy worksheet is a valuable tool that can be used to motivate clients and facilitate positive change. By identifying discrepancies between a client’s current behavior and their desired outcomes, you can help them develop a stronger sense of motivation and commitment to change.
This Relapse Prevention Worksheet includes prompts to :
- Assess current behavior
- Define current values and goals
- Identify discrepancies
- Explore the consequences
- Plan for change
Why the Relapse Prevention Plan Worksheet is Essential:
The Building Discrepancy worksheet is a valuable tool for therapists working with clients who are striving to make positive changes. By effectively using this worksheet, you can help your clients identify discrepancies, increase their motivation, and develop a stronger sense of commitment to their goals.
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What is the Building Discrepancy worksheet?
The building discrepancy worksheet sets a client’s current behavior against their stated values in four steps. Step 1: Reflect on Current Behavior asks what habits put recovery at risk. Step 3: Explore the Discrepancy then asks, in plain terms, how those behaviors conflict with the values written two steps earlier.
How to use the Building Discrepancy worksheet
Send this one home as homework, since it is written to be answered alone. Ask for Step 2: Define your Values and Goals to be filled first if the client is still ambivalent. Values named in advance are harder to argue away later. Your clients can then answer Step 3 honestly without it reading as a challenge from you. Read Step 4: Plan for Change together in the next session, rather than letting a plan get made alone.
Building Discrepancy Worksheet Download – What’s Included
Two printable pages, not fillable, with four steps and seven open questions. Page one carries Step 1: Reflect on Current Behavior and Step 2: Define your Values and Goals, with the values prompt giving health and family as examples. Page two carries Step 3: Explore the Discrepancy and Step 4: Plan for Change, which asks for changes that align behavior with recovery goals.
Based on Motivational Interviewing (Miller & Rollnick). Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2013). Motivational Interviewing (3rd ed.). Guilford Press.
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