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Part of the Relapse Prevention Workbook for Chemically Dependent Criminal Offenders

Exercise No. 22: Challenging Injunctions

Purpose. This exercise will help you to understand why you think and feel the way you do and how you can change these thoughts and feelings. Complete as much of the worksheet as you can.

Instructions. Make five copies of this exercise. For each of the injunctions listed in Exercise No. 20, part 2, complete the statements below:

  1. Injunction __________:

    I Must



    Or else (What do you believe will happen?)



  2. Challenging the Injunction:

    1. Who taught you that you must do this?


    2. Is it possible you were taught wrong?


    3. Do you believe the Injunction is [ ] True or [ ] False?

    4. If it is false, what might be the truth?


      Based on this truth, another way I can think is



    5. The feelings that I have when I think this way are


      If I change the way I think, I will feel



    6. When I think this way, I want to


      What I could do instead is



  3. If I continue to think, feel, and act the way I did in the past, what is . . .

    1. The best that can happen?


    2. The worst that can happen?


    3. Most likely to happen?


  4. If I change the way I think, feel, and act, what is . . .

    1. The best that can happen?


    2. The worst that can happen?


    3. Most likely to happen?




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Last Updated 11-7-02