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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.

  1. Initial Relapse Warning Signs:

    Alcohol and Drug Warning Signs
    Offender Warning Signs
    No. 1
    		No. 1
    No. 2
    		No. 2
    No. 3
    		No. 3

  2. 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.

  3. Write down any new thoughts, feelings or urges that you had when describing the warning signs (above).

    A.
    		D.
    B.
    		E.
    C.
    		F.

  4. 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.

  5. Key ideas: List the key ideas from the story of your past experience.
    1. It happened at (where and when)

    2. I was with

    3. What was going on was

    4. I thought

    5. I felt

    6. I wanted to

    7. The next thing I thought was

    8. The next thing I felt was

    9. The next thing I did was

  6. 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.

  7. Key Ideas: List the key ideas from the story of your future experience.
    1. It happened at (where and when)

    2. I was with

    3. What was going on was

    4. I thought

    5. I felt

    6. I wanted to

    7. The next thing I thought was

    8. The next thing I felt was

    9. The next thing I did was

  8. Reactions to this exercise: During this exercise . . .
    1. I thought

    2. I felt

    3. I wanted to

  9. Finish the following sentence five times, each time giving it a new ending.

    I am now beginning to realize . . .



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Last Updated 11-7-02