From Psychosis Sucks

Lots of free downloads from psychosissucks.ca. Areas covered include:

• Symptom Relapse Prevention
  
• Family Coping
  
• Drugs, Alcohol, and Psychosis
  
• Medication
  
• Social Support
  
• Stress Management
  

All offered in several languages. Beyond the downloads page, plenty of reading and resources about psychosis treatment and recovery (with a focus on early intervention). Dig in.

Smart Recovery Worksheets

Another worksheet motherlode, this time at smartrecovery.org. Sections include...

• Self-Acceptance
• Stages of Change
• Rational Thinking (aka CBT)

Pages about Core Beliefs, Cognitive Distortions, REBT, Family Systems, and more.

What's Smart Recovery? Had to look it up. Says wikipedia:

SMART Recovery (Self Management and Recovery Training) is an international non-profit organization which provides assistance to individuals seeking abstinence from addictive behaviors. The approach used is secular and science-based using non-confrontational motivational, behavioral and cognitive methods. Substance/activity dependence is viewed by the organization as a dysfunctional habit (rather than a disease), while allowing that it is possible that certain people have a predisposition towards addictive behavior.

Not the Twelve Steps. CBT, not HP. Enjoy.

Yalom Threes

Here, as promised, are a few examples of the three-question worksheets suggested in Irvin Yalom's Inpatient Group Therapy. If you have more and better variations, don't hesitate to send them to me for posting: socialworkprep [at] gmail.com

• Three Job Questions
  
• Three Support System Questions
  
• Important Person/Something Interesting/Gratitude

My Support System

Linked here, "My Support System - Today and In the Future." Worksheet takes clients through their current and future, hoped-for support system in four areas: Family, Friends, Professionals, Others. Works well in dual diagnosis group--especially with clients with little-to-no current support (provided you normalize having little-to-no support).

Therapist may want to let each group member read answer, then prompt clients re how they might go about getting the wanted support--What are the steps? What are you looking for in a friend, sponsor, psychiatrist...? What are you looking to avoid?

• My Support System (Today and In the Future) (pdf)