Visualizing the Whole Person
Create a comprehensive map of the factors influencing your patient's recovery to guide truly holistic care.
Seeing the individual beyond the diagnosis
What non-addiction identities does the patient hold?
What inherent strengths and resources can be leveraged?
How does their life story inform their current situation?
Social and environmental influences
What housing, economic, or legal factors are relevant?
How do cultural factors influence their recovery?
What is the state of their support system?
Meeting patients where they are
What is their current readiness for change?
What motivates them personally?
What are the key areas of ambivalence?
Integrated care approach
What trauma history needs to be considered?
What co-occurring conditions are present?
How do these interact with substance use?
Maintaining clinician wellbeing
How do you maintain healthy emotional boundaries?
Who supports you in this work?
What restores your energy?