Purpose 🎯

Build a personalized list of coping resources and recovery supports.

Creating the Toolbox 🧰

Help the patient identify tools across several categories:

• People or supports
• Safe places
• Activities
• Coping skills
• Emergency supports
• Meaningful reasons for change

Discuss which tools are easiest to access during a craving or high-risk moment.

Making It Practical 💡

Choose one or two tools the patient can use this week and identify when, where, and how they will use them.

Telehealth / Whiteboard Version 💻

Create a visual toolbox with labeled sections. Add specific names, places, actions, and supports.

Why This Works 🌱

A recovery toolbox makes coping options visible, concrete, and easier to access during moments of stress or craving.

Clinical Pearl 🧠

Include low-effort tools for moments when motivation or energy is limited.

Documentation Language 📝

Patient developed a recovery toolbox identifying coping skills, supports, safe activities, and reasons for change to support substance-use recovery and craving management.

Clinical Focus: Coping Resources, Recovery Support, Relapse Prevention