Taking Action:
A Mental Health Recovery Self-Help Educational Program
Taking Action is a self-care and recovery educational program developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under contract with Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD. Its purpose is to implement educational programs in self-help concepts, skills, and strategies for adults with mental health issues and/or for adults with mental health issues who also may have substance use issues. The goal of this project is to promote wellness, stability, recovery, and life transformation.
(APPR) User's Workbook & Self Help Guide's
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APPR User's Workbook.pdf
Please use this booklet to help guide you through creating and using your Action Plan. We have found in our own recovery that using an Action Plan helps in developing and using tools that aid us in our everyday life. It is an invaluable aid when working through difficult times. No one action plan works for everyone, so this book has things that may apply to you, and also things that don’t.
This is your plan - yours will be different from others, and that’s not only okay, but it’s also to be expected. This guide is usually used in a class or group, but also can be done by yourself. If you are working with a peer supporter, therapist, or counselor, it may be something you want to share with them. However, it can be totally private. Sometimes, it is helpful to share a part of the plan, so that you have a trusted provider, friend, or family member who can advocate on your behalf should that become necessary.
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Build Your Own WRAP Form.pdf
Adult WRAP Forms [Adult_Forms.pdf]:
This document contains all of the forms used to develop a Wellness Recovery Action Plan for adults.
Use the APPR.pdf document as a guideline for working through and completing the forms.
There are a few options for working with these forms, which include printing and completing them on paper.
You can open the RTF version of the forms if you would like to type directly into the documents and save them on your computer as you work.
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Self Help Guide's.pdf
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Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) is a self-directed framework for identifying what supports wellness, noticing early signs of difficulty, and deciding in advance how to respond.
The Twelve Steps offer a spiritual and peer-supported path of honesty, accountability, service, and ongoing personal growth.
Used together, WRAP can help an individual translate recovery principles into a personalized daily plan while preserving the fellowship, sponsorship, and spiritual practices that are central to Twelve Step participation
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If you are concerned about your mental health or the quality of your life, you can do many things and make changes in your life that will help you to feel much better. This booklet will help you think about those areas of your life that may need to be changed and possible changes you could make.
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Most people feel bad about themselves from time to time. Feelings of low self-esteem may be triggered by being treated poorly by someone else recently or in the past, or by a person’s own judgments of him or herself. This booklet will give you ideas on things you can do to feel better about yourself–to raise your self-esteem. The ideas have come from people like yourself, people who realize they have low self-esteem and are working to improve it.
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If you experience troubling emotional or psychological symptoms—like depression, bipolar disorder or manic depression, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, dissociative disor der, post traumatic stress disorder, an eating disorder, or an anxiety disorder—you may be looking for some information and support on speaking out for yourself.
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People seem to have a natural need for friends and with good reason. Friends increase your enjoyment of life and relieve feelings of loneliness. They even can help reduce stress and improve your health. Having good friends is especially helpful when you are going through any kind of hard time: experiencing anxiety or panic attacks, depression, phobias or delusional thinking; living with a serious illness or disability; having major sur gery; having a loss in your life; or just being under a lot of stress. At times like these, good friends and support ers can make all the difference.
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Do you experience feelings and symptoms that are upsetting, that keep you from being the way you want to be and doing the things you want to do? Many people who have troubling emotional, psychiatric, or physical symptoms have made great advances in learning how to do things to help themselves get well and stay well. One of the most frustrating stages of recovering your health is when you realize that you can do many things to help yourself stay well but you can’t figure out a way to do them regularly. It is easy to forget simple things that you know, especially when you are under stress or when your symptoms are beginning to flare up. The action plans for prevention and recovery described in this booklet were devised by people who experience emotional or psychiatric symptoms. They developed ways to deal with their need for structure in their lives that actively support their health.
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Every aspect of your life — the place you live, the people you live with, your friends and acquaintances, the things you do or don’t do, the things you own, your work, even things like pets, music, and color affect how you feel.
If you are concerned about your mental health or the quality of your life, you can do many things and make changes in your life that will help you to feel much better. This booklet will help you think about those areas of your life that may need to be changed and possible changes you could make.
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