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Part of the Relapse Prevention Workbook for Chemically Dependent Criminal Offenders

Exercise No. 21: Challenging Mandates

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

Instructions. Make five copies of this exercise. Go back to each of the mandates from Exercise No. 20, part 1. Complete the following statement and answer the questions about the statement:

  1. Mandate __________:

    I Must

    Or else (What do you believe will happen?)

  2. Challenging the Mandate:

    1. Who taught you that you must do this?

    2. Is it possible you were taught wrong?

    3. Do you believe the mandate 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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