Free relapse prevention worksheet — early warning signs, high-risk situations, matched coping steps and a setback script, built with a clinician.
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Free relapse prevention worksheet — early warning signs, high-risk situations, matched coping steps and a setback script, built with a clinician.
Plan note: build this worksheet with a qualified professional during stable periods. If you are in crisis now, contact local emergency services or a crisis line first — this page is not an emergency service.
Not a diagnostic tool: warning signs and steps must reflect this client's real history and treatment context.
Relapse is rarely a cliff; it is a staircase of small, personal signs — skipped routines, withdrawal, sleep drift. This worksheet builds the classic maintenance cascade: early signs, slippery slope, high-risk situations, matched coping at each stage and a first-hour setback script — co-written in stable weeks and dated so revisions track with the client.
Fillable sample worksheet preview (live once the app is published).
The triggers, early signs and response steps it maps.
Signs, slope and high-risk situations written per stage.
A coping step for every stage, not just crisis.
First-hour actions against shame spirals.
Plans evolve with the client, visibly.
From copy to a written relapse plan in four steps.
Import the worksheet into your workspace — free.
Co-write during stable periods.
Shared and revisited quarterly.
Revise warnings with what was learned.
Who uses it — addiction or clinical counselors working with clients.
Turn we are done into a working plan.
A plan for the week the plan matters.
Structured relapse cascade for treatment programs.
What makes this prevention plan hold under pressure.
A preview of the real prompts — write each stage with the client.
