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Part of the Relapse Prevention Workbook for Chemically Dependent Criminal Offenders

Exercise No. 23: Improved Reactions to Mandates and Injunctions

Purpose. This exercise will help you find new ways to react to the mandates and injunctions that are true.

Instructions. Make five copies of this exercise. For each of the mandates and injunctions listed in Exercise No. 20, part 3, complete the statements and answer the questions below.

Mandate or Injunction _________
1. A. I Must or Can't
  
  Or else (What do you believe will happen?)
  
  Another way I can think is
2. The feelings that I have when I think this way are
  
  If I change the way I think, I will feel
3. When I think this way, I want to
  
  What I could do instead is
If you continue to think, feel, and act the way you have in the past, what is . . .
1. The best that can happen?
2. The worst that can happen?
3. The most likely to happen?
If you change the way you think, feel, and act, what is . . .
1. The best that can happen?
2. The worst that can happen?
3. The most likely to happen?