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Part of the Relapse Prevention Workbook for
Chemically Dependent Criminal Offenders
Exercise No. 11: Warning Sign Analysis
Purpose This exercise will help you to understand how each
warning sign you checked in the previous section can happen to
you.
Instructions. Write down each title of the six relapse
warning signs you identified in Exercise No. 10 (A and B). Then
complete the following exercises about each one. If you are having
trouble, quit for a short period, but come back to the exercise.
- Initial Relapse Warning Signs:
| Alcohol and Drug Warning Signs
| Offender Warning Signs
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No. 1
| No. 1
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No. 2
| No. 2
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No. 3
| No. 3
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- Description: Describe how these relapse warning signs
work together to set you up to return to using and criminal behavior.
Refer to the thoughts, feelings, and things you wanted to do in
Exercise No. 10 to help you complete this description.
- Write down any new thoughts, feelings or urges that you
had when describing the warning signs (above).
- Past experience: Describe a time in the past when
one of these warning signs happened to you when you were sober
and clean. Describe it as a story with a beginning, middle, and
end. Include who was there, what happened, and where and when
it happened. Also state what you were feeling, thinking, and wanted
to do.
- Key ideas: List the key ideas from the story of
your past experience.
- It happened at (where and when)
- I was with
- What was going on was
- I thought
- I felt
- I wanted to
- The next thing I thought was
- The next thing I felt was
- The next thing I did was
- Future Experience: Think about a time in the future
when this warning sign might happen to you while you are sober
and clean. Describe it as a story with a beginning, middle, and
end. Include who might be there, what might happen, and where
and when it might happen. Also state what feelings and thoughts
you might have and what you would want to do.
- Key Ideas: List the key ideas from the story of
your future experience.
- It happened at (where and when)
- I was with
- What was going on was
- I thought
- I felt
- I wanted to
- The next thing I thought was
- The next thing I felt was
- The next thing I did was
- Reactions to this exercise: During this exercise
. . .
- I thought
- I felt
- I wanted to
- Finish the following sentence five times, each time giving
it a new ending.
I am now beginning to realize . . .
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